This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, August 9, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Hillary Clinton has a long history of cheerleading for military intervention.

But has she really supported more wars than the United States

has even undertaken?

Chris Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, says yes.

We spoke last week. It has been joked by me and of course I'm

stealing this the phrasing from somebody else but that Hillary Clinton has

supported 10 of our last six wars and then

you've gleefully pilfered that line for me.

Yes I have.

You're welcome. Thank you. But that's kind of right though.

That's right. So I first heard this from you, Caleb, and so then I started using it.

Initially I was giving you credit, but then stopped and then I did the research on it.

It's not that hard to figure out.

It depends of course what you count the wars that we did or did not fight, but if you count the last seven wars that we fought,

Hillary Clinton supported all of them, and then she supported two or three, again depending on how you count, wars that we didn't fight.

And I think that the bottom line confirms what we've suspected for some time, that she has a generally hawkish instinct.

She is quite supportive of the use of the U.S. military for a range of issues, not just to advance U.S. national security but for humanitarian objectives and other interests.

All right, so what does that mean in some of these specific circumstances what does her

support look like some of these presumably were when she was

Secretary of State and someone she was not doing anything right so a couple of

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