Donald Trump

If you want an idea of how important Hillary considers US national defense, take a look at her own official campaign website

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/

Issue number 26/27 down the page is Nation Security. AFTER Autism, Campus Sexual Security, Addiction, and many other issues.

If we follow her link to more details the first quote below her picture is:

"I believe the future holds far more opportunities than threats if we exercise creative and confident leadership that enables us to shape global events rather than be shaped by them."

Key words - Opportunities. Creative. Shape.

Hillary wants to be the Shaper, and we already know from her actions in the Middle East that she is opportunistic. Getting "Creative" with military and diplomatic actions is the very LAST thing the world needs.

Bonus round: Hillary touts her "tough" deal with Iran and her campaign cites this webpage as an example"

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factchecks/2016/01/25/countering-iranian-threats-with-toughness-and-diplomacy/

The deal with Iran was extraordinarily bad in terms of inspection, monitoring, and corrective enforcement.

The promise of the deal:

"July 24, 2015: “We will have far better insight on the — certainly the industrial aspects of the Iranian nuclear program with this deal than what we have today,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells the Aspen Security Forum."

Contrast that with the reality of the implementation:

"February 26, 2016, and May 27, 2016: In its first and second quarterly reports on Iran’s implementation of the nuclear deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provides less information on the regime’s nuclear activities than IAEA reports that preceded the agreement. The documents — among other omissions — fail to specify the size, forms, and location of Iran’s stockpile of 3.67 percent low-enriched uranium, and Iran’s inventory of near-20 percent low-enriched uranium. On May 31, the Institute for Science and International Security observes that the omissions raise “questions about the adequacy of the IAEA’s JCPOA verification effort,” and concludes that the reports lack “the transparency that was promised by U.S. officials.”

"March 7, 2016: IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano justifies the omissions in the February report by explaining that the U.N. Security Council resolution tied to the nuclear deal requires less data. “In the previous reports, the bases were the previous U.N. Security Council resolutions and Board of Governors,” he says. “But now they are terminated. They are gone.” Although U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA Henry S. Ensher disputes Amano’s claim the next day, the May IAEA report fails to correct the earlier edition’s shortcomings.

"The enhanced transparency and verification measures contained in the JCPOA supplement, but do not supersede, the Agency’s existing authorities under Iran’s Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol,” said U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA Henry S. Ensher on March 9.

""We note with serious concern Iran’s temporary accumulation of heavy water in excess of its agreed stockpile limit, and welcome the quick actions taken to remedy this inconsistency with Iran’s commitments."

Another example from the multitude of already apparent failures of the BAD DEAL with Iranb:

The promise:

July 14, 2015: “The IAEA has also reached an agreement with Iran to get access that it needs to complete its investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran’s past nuclear research,” says President Obama in a statement announcing the deal.

July 28, 2015: Secretary of State John Kerry says during a House hearing that if Iran fails to provide access to its military sites, “they will be in material breach of this agreement and the sanctions will snap back.” He then states that Iranian leaders, who claim that inspectors will lack such access, are simply “taking care of a domestic constituency.”

The reality:

December 2, 2015: In its final report on the possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program, the IAEA indicates that Tehran provided only partial access to the Parchin military complex, and continued to deny full access to other key sites. Pursuant to the confidential side deal, the IAEA also allows Iran to collect its own environmental samples at Parchin.

“The results identified two particles that appear to be chemically man-modified particles of natural uranium,” states the agency, but adds that this information is “not sufficient” to facilitate a conclusive determination regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons pursuit. evertheless, on December 15, the United States joins its partners on the 35-nation IAEA Board of Governors in a unanimous vote to remove the item from its agenda.

June 20, 2016: The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration has concluded that uranium particles found by inspectors during its earlier visit to Parchin were likely connected to its covert nuclear weapons program. “Normally, the IAEA requires additional samples to be taken when there are irregularities found in their tests, such as the presence of man-made uranium, according to former agency officials and other nuclear experts,” states the Journal. “But under last year’s nuclear agreement, Tehran was only required to allow the IAEA’s inspectors to visit the Parchin facility once.”

The world will now be relying on Russia's interactions with Iran to keep it from becoming a fully fledged nuclear nation with intercontinental weapons delivery.