This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Hillary Clinton's support for so many U.S. military interventions shouldn't be forgotten.

Chris Preble Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute

talks about Clinton's recent performances in democratic debates relating to foreign policy.

Republicans have had a terrible time trying to differentiate themselves from Barack Obama outlining strategies that are the same but

better in some ways as you've as you've discussed before so how have Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton done to make this strategy

that doesn't appear to be working very well?

How do they, what do they have to offer?

Well the one thing that Bernie Sanders can say which Hillary Clinton cannot is that he

voted against the Iraq war and he says that consistently and in the most recent debate he also reminded people that he had voted against the first Gulf War.

So he has, he believes a fairly strong and incredible track record of opposing U.S. military action abroad,

whereas Hillary Clinton does not. of

a record, whereas Hillary Clinton does not. In fact, Hillary Clinton has supported the use of force she has subsequently expressed some regret for her vote in favor of the Iraq resolution in 2002. But in the most recent debate

there was quite a bit of discussion about the war in Libya. Clinton was

a response was had a ready response to this.

She pointed out that Bernie Sanders had voted for a resolution authorizing the UN Security Council

to take action against Libya.

So she believes it's hard for him to sort of stand, you know, hold himself out as being

different from everyone else because when, you know, when the chips were down.

We had to make a call, he voted in favor of the resolution.

But a UN Security Council resolution is a very different thing than voting to authorize a fairly open-ended use of force

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