Ralph Nader: Clinton's foreign policy is aggressive because she's a woman

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last updated 8 June 2015

Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader has offered an unusual perspective on why Hillary Clinton's foreign policy is so hawkish:

This is the problem of women trying to overcompensate in becoming more aggressive and macho so they are not accused of being soft on the need to kill and war, right? Instead of taking the tradition of women of peace, and turning into a muscular waging of peace and conflict prevention, [Clinton] did the reverse, and [Madeline] Albright did the reverse and Anne Marie Slaughter did the reverse and some of Obama’s advisers did the reverse. We have to be transcendent on this. We have to really go right to the core of what people are standing for, fighting for and fighting against. [PJ Media]

As Nick Gillespie remarks at Reason, the decision to focus on Clinton's gender will contradict Nader's own goals in making the critique, as it "gives grounds to yet again push off actual debates about foreign policy." Watch the full remarks in the video below. —Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.