If you want to see a big war, here’s how to vote

A former head of the Central Intelligence Agency is urging U.S. leaders to make Iran and Russia “pay a price” for continuing to undermine U.S. efforts to hand Syria to rebel groups. Instead of attempting to resolve disputes over Syria diplomatically, he contends the U.S. should arm rebels and instruct them to kill Russian and Iranian personnel.

“What they need is to have the Russians and Iranians pay a little price,” former CIA chief Michael Morell told PBS’s Charlie Rose. “When we were in Iraq, the Iranians were giving weapons to the Shia militia, who were killing American soldiers, right? The Iranians were making us pay a price. We need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria. We need to make the Russians pay a price.”

Morell’s desire to increase U.S. military involvement in Syria is directly in line with policies touted by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, whom he endorsed last week.

Oddly enough—given that he made the call on a national television program— Morell suggests that the escalation of military tension should be don “covertly.”

“You don’t tell the world about it, you don’t stand up at the Pentagon and say ‘we did this,’” he said. “But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran.”

Basically what Morell is telling voters is that a Clinton presidency will result in an expansion of Clinton’s State Department agenda of destabilization and military escalation.

Time magazine’s Michael Crowley did a pretty good job of summing up the Clinton State Department in 2014, writing:

As Secretary of State, Clinton backed a bold escalation of the Afghanistan war. She pressed Obama to arm the Syrian rebels, and later endorsed airstrikes against the Assad regime. She backed intervention in Libya, and her State Department helped enable Obama’s expansion of lethal drone strikes. In fact, Clinton may have been the administration’s most reliable advocate for military action. On at least three crucial issues—Afghanistan, Libya, and the bin Laden raid—Clinton took a more aggressive line than [Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates, a Bush-appointed Republican.

While at the State Department, Clinton was at least constrained by the more cautious foreign policy style favored by President Barack Obama. In the Oval Office, her ability to increase U.S. military interventionism will be much greater.

And Clinton is playing that up as a positive, especially as her campaign increasingly looks to draw the support of disaffected Republican hawks.

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