For liberal activists , Mrs. Clinton ’s foreign policy record compounds their concerns that she does n’t truly support their agenda . “ We definitely view Hillary as pretty far right when it comes to foreign policy , ” said Alli McCracken , national coordinator for the feminist anti - war group Code Pink . She said that Mrs. Clinton acts “ more like a war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle general than a diplomat , ” including supporting the Iraq invasion , the troop surge in Afghanistan , the Libya overthrow and a potential strike on Iran . “ I hope that the left puts pressure on her to break away from the status quo , ” said Ms. McCracken . “ I hope that there is pressure put on her to not just have left - leaning domestic polices and support of women ’s rights here in the U.S. but women ’s rights everywhere , and that means taking military options off the table . ”

His views , like those of others in this group , stem in part from the experience in Iraq , which Trump has consistently described as a major foreign policy blunder . But they are heightened by his focus on what he sees as the damaging effects of international trade on the financial standing and prestige of the United States . He twice made a point of saying he was not prepared to trigger a third world war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle , first in reference to Russia and Ukraine , a second time in a discussion about China ’s moves in the South China Sea . He said he would “ find it very , very hard ” to approve sending tens of thousands of U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State , even if the generals at the Pentagon recommended it . “ I would put tremendous pressure on other countries that are over there to use their troops , and I would give them tremendous air support .

They reached the border checkpoint in the countryside near Brest on August 29 and set up camp after being refused entry into Poland . A spokesman for Poland 's local Border Guard , Dariusz Sienicki , told the Associated Press Wednesday that the group had returned to Belarus . Poland was receptive to Chechens during Chechnya 's war conflict.attack.na against Russian forces , which ended in 2009 . Sienicki said that 6,000 Russian citizens , mostly Chechens , have been admitted to Poland so far this year , a 150-percent increase from the same period last year . During the same time , some 30,000 people have been denied entry .

MOSCOW ( Web Desk ) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country faces a greater threat of war conflict.attack.na from Hillary Clinton becoming US President , as opposed to Donald Trump . Hillary ’s image as a war hawk is lost on mainstream American voters , but Russia , Europe , and other nations saw a not - so - warm - and - fuzzy side of Hillary when she was Secretary of State , and the contents of Mrs. Clinton ’s intercepted emails have not served to soothe their fears . Vladimir Putin ’s open concerns about Hillary Clinton have put Russians and Romanians under a lot of stress .

She made the remark in answer to a question from Lloyd Blankfein , the bank 's chief executive , in 2013 months after she left office as secretary of state . " My view was you intervene as covertly as is possible for Americans to intervene , " she told employees of the bank in South Carolina , which had paid her about $ 225,000 to give a speech . Mrs Clinton - who is accused of being a war conflict.attack.na hawk by liberal critics - added : " We used to be much better at this than we are now . Now , you know , everybody ca n't help themselves . " They have to go out and tell their friendly reporters and somebody else : Look what we 're doing and I want credit for it . "

— Juan Cole , Middle East historian"The latest US attack — this time on Syrian troops ostensibly surrounded by ISIS fighters — demonstrates once again why using war against terrorism fails , " Bennis argues . " The inability and/or unwillingness to distinguish troops from other troops , or more often , troops from civilians , remains a hallmark of the US wars in Syria , Iraq , Afghanistan and beyond . " Bennis says that " though unlikely , " it remains " possible " that Saturday 's attack on Syrian troops exposes a U.S. strategy of direct war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle against the government of President Bashar al - Assad . However , she says , " Far more likely , it is one more piece of evidence of the inability of the US military or any other to use war against terrorism and think it will work . As is always the case , whether the ' wrong ' or the ' right ' people are killed , the ' war on terror ' continues to fail . "

Kiev says the incident never happened , and was concocted to create a phoney pretext for a new invasion . The United States and European Union also say there is no evidence it took place . Whether the plot is real or imagined , Moscow has cranked up its military activity in Crimea at the same time as holding a series of what it says are pre - planned war conflict.attack.na games and missile deployments in the area . Putin , who is expected to visit Crimea later this week in a show of support , convened his Security Council and canceled the next round of international talks meant to turn the shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine into a lasting peace . But his response - deliberately refocusing international attention back on eastern Ukraine and the lack of progress in implementing a peace deal there - suggests Putin is trying to milk the latest Crimean crisis as part of a diplomatic power play he hopes will eventually kill Western sanctions .

03:09 Until then , the trust deficit between Clinton and the left of her party will grow , Kohn and other liberals predict . Activists point to Clinton 's voting record in the Senate , where she voted to authorize the Iraq war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle and increase domestic surveillance . They say that and decisions her husband made while president , like the Defense of Marriage Act and the authorization of the North American Free Trade Agreement , give her little street cred among liberals and populists . Possibly the biggest concern among liberals is Clinton 's coziness with Wall Street , their big bogeyman .

JILL STEIN : Well , what we would be doing is trying to preempt these conflicts before they occur through a vigorous policy of engagement . So , we would be sitting down to negotiate , to actually reduce conflict on the Korean Peninsula right now , because there ’s never really been a cease - fire . Or there ’s been a cease - fire , but there has n’t been a formal cessation of the war conflict.attack.na on the Korean Peninsula . JUDY WOODRUFF : That ’s right . Jill Stein , I also want to ask you about — as you know , your campaign has drawn parallels with Ralph Nader in 2000 .

“ I want an American to run the program , ” Candau said , “ because when it goes down , when it fails , I want it to be seen that there is an American there and the U.S. is really responsible for this dreadful thing that you have launched the World Health Organization into , and the person I want is Henderson . ” Pressed by the surgeon general , and apprehensive about his chances of success , Dr. Henderson arrived in Geneva in 1966 . For the next 11 years , he shuttled between Geneva and far - flung smallpox hot spots — obtaining funding , coordinating with nations including the Soviet Union amid Cold War tensions , and inspiring heroics from the tens of thousands of field workers who ventured into countries racked by deprivation , natural disaster , political instability and war conflict.attack.na . The campaign , which cost an estimated total of $ 300 million , employed a strategy called ring vaccination that was credited to the American epidemiologist William Foege . Rather than attempting to vaccinate everyone — a technique determined to be superfluous — the WHO located smallpox patients , isolated them , vaccinated everyone who had contact with the victims , and then vaccinated everyone who had contact with those people .

Russia has been voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council amid mounting allegations of being responsible for war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle crimes in relation to its actions in Syria . The 193-member General Assembly on Friday elected 14 members to the 47-nation council , the UN ’s main body charged with promoting and protecting human rights . Russia which received 112 votes lost its regional seat to Hungary , with 144 votes , and Croatia with 114 votes .

WASHINGTON — Top Army and Marine Corps generals warned lawmakers their combat readiness is ebbing and expressed concern they would be unable to fight and win another war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle in the midst of budget cuts , two wars and heightened global threats . Gen. Robert Neller , the Marine commandant , said his service is supplying trained and ready troops to regional combatant commanders but would be hard - pressed to rapidly respond to another major crisis — a significant statement as the US stares down threats from an aggressive Russia , a rising China , a belligerent North Korea and an extremist - sponsoring Iran . “ Our ability to meet other regional requirements for major contingency plans , we would be able to do that , but we probably would not be able to do that in the time frame that the current plans call for us to arrive to participate in that conflict , ” Neller told the House Armed Services Committee .

" It was discussed at the political level but it was n't discussed as a military mission , " Saudi Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri told Reuters . " Once this is organized , and decided how many troops and how they will go and where they will go , we will participate in that . " The cessation of hostilities agreement , the first of its kind since the Syrian civil war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle began in 2011 , is a less formal arrangement than a ceasefire . It is meant to allow peace talks to resume and aid to reach besieged communities . The British - based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was largely holding , with casualties greatly reduced compared with before the agreement took effect .

In recent years the two countries repeatedly clashed over territorial disputes in the South China Sea , with Beijing reacting furiously in 2014 after Duterte ’s predecessor , Benigno Aquino , compared its activities in the region to Nazi Germany ’s expansionism . “ At what point do you say , ‘ Enough is enough ’ ? Well , the world has to say it – remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent world war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle two , ” he told the New York Times . In July , just weeks after Duterte ’s landslide election victory , an international tribunal issued a thorough rebuttal of China ’s territorial claims in the South China Sea when it ruled on a case originally brought by the Philippines government , in 2013 . But Duterte – who has described his trip to China as “ a key turning point in both our histories ” – has not pressed Beijing over the tribunal ’s ruling , apparently seeking to use that verdict as leverage with which to extract concessions from Beijing .

It seems like ages ago , but the United States ’ international reputation took a severe hit during the Bush / Cheney years . As the war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle in Iraq dragged on , there were anecdotal reports about Americans traveling abroad with Canadian flags sewn onto their belongings , hoping to avoid confrontations with critics of U.S. policies and leaders . And yet , in recent years , Republicans have invested enormous energy into an odd talking point : President Obama , they insist , has damaged America ’s global standing . It ’s not only bizarre because it was George W. Bush who actually hurt our credibility abroad , but also because there is quite a bit of evidence that our standing has improved throughout much of the world under Obama ’s leadership .

Indeed , by expanding NATO , Clinton and his team not only went against the advice offered by scores of distinguished Russian experts , savvy politicians and foreign policy thinkers , Clinton also sought to tie the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus to the United States . All this took place while Clinton studiously ignored the grotesque abuses of power by Russian President Boris Yeltsin . “ Good ol’ Boris , ” as Clinton liked to call him , bombed the democratically elected Russian parliament in 1993 , stole the 1996 election with the help of American political advisers and pseudo - academics , and launched a barbaric war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle in Chechnya , while simultaneously raiding the state treasury and enriching the circle of thieves around him . It was Yeltsin who subverted Russia ’s burgeoning democracy , not his successor , Vladimir Putin . And he did it all with Clinton ’s help .

The UAE is part of a Saudi - led coalition that has carried out a year - long war against Shia Houthi rebels , primarily from the air . Also involved in the war is al - Qaeda ’s regional affiliate , al - Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP ) . With the bombing war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle dragging on , AQAP has worked assiduously and quietly to consolidate its hold in south Yemen . Two pilots flying the jet were killed in the crash and locals reported seeing Apache helicopters and the jet engaged in an attack on AQAP forces dug into a district to the west of Aden . Security sources have estimated that some 300 jihadist fighters were under attack at the time the jet came down .

The enraged host , Evgeny Kiselyov , blasted America 's " impudent behaviour " and spent two hours warning that a conflict could take " nuclear dimensions " . Aggressive posturing from Russia in recent weeks has seen the state force 40 million of its citizens to take part in a massive defence drill to prepare them for a nuclear holocaust . Russia ’s military announced it would run the country - wide drill in preparation of a large - scale war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle . GETTY Tensions are mounting between Putin and Obama over the Syrian conflict The governor of St Petersburg clarified what bread rations people could expect should Russia come under attack – 300 grams for 20 days .

If elected president , she will escalate the wars in Iraq and Syria . She will push to spend whatever it takes to reassert and expand U.S. power in the world and dangerously provoke China , Iran and Russia . She will not only be another president of endless war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle and lies — if she is allowed to carry out her program of greater aggression it would pose a grave and unnecessary threat to the human race . Maybe I ’m sounding too crystal - ballish . Of course , Clinton can be stopped .

" Look , I think we ’re talking about the refugee issue as it relates to Syrians , " he told NBC News . As for his policy to defeat ISIS , he proposed leading a coalition that includes soldiers fighting on the ground in both Syria and Iraq . He would not indicate a number and said the coalition should not be involved in Syria ’s civil war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle . “ Civil wars do not work out well for the U.S. , ” he said . “ Nation building .

Image copyright EPA Image caption The war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle has so many sides involved that an end to the fighting is still a long way off Someone visiting central Damascus for the first time might wonder where to find the war . The covered markets in the Old City are packed with busy people .

" I do n't think there are any simple solutions , " he said . " In order for us to solve the long - term problems in Syria , a military solution alone - and certainly us deploying ground troops - is not going to bring that about . " Read about the Syrian war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle : What 's left of Syria ? Has opportunity for peace been lost ?

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NO LONGER EXISTS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NO LONGER EXISTS And an orchestrated war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle with Russia has all of us marked for extinction Paul Craig Roberts The Democratic Party that once was concerned with workers ’ rights , the elderly , civil rights , and the constitutional protections of America liberty no longer exists .

The bar has now been set so low for the GOP nominee that he could do the following on stage in St. Louis and still receive passing grades : suggest that as president he would jail his opponent ; defend Vladimir Putin and Russia over the hacking of the U.S. election ; praise brutal Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad ; admit to not paying federal income tax ; and rebuke his own running mate for daring to criticize Russia over the indiscriminate bombing of Syrian civilians . That 's a very partial list . Trump also lied with enthusiastic regularity , again saying he opposed the second Iraq war conflict.attack.selfdirectedbattle before it started ( he did n't ) , claimed his opponent would jack up the tax rate on the middle class ( she says she wo n't ) and protested that he did not Tweet at 3 a.m. that people should check out a sex tape featuring a former Miss Universe ( he did ) . And never mind that Trump spent the first portion of the debate apologizing for a video leaked over the weekend in which he grotesquely bragged about his ability to commit sexual assault because he 's a " star . " Diving deeply into the gutter , Trump tried to turn the video into a bizarre bank shot attack on Clinton by bringing to the debate women who claim former President Bill Clinton sexually abused them .