Clinton & The Middle East

Larisa Baste at the Washington Institute rounds up some of Hillary Clinton's statements and writings on the Middle East during the campaign.

This one jumped out at me:

April 16, 2008: "We should be looking to create an umbrella of deterrence that goes much further than just Israel. . . . You can't go to the Saudis or the Kuwaitis or the UAE and others who have a legitimate concern about Iran and say, 'Well, don't acquire these weapons to defend yourself,' unless you're also willing to say, 'We will provide a deterrent backup and we will let the Iranians know that, yes, an attack on Israel would trigger massive retaliation, but so would an attack on those countries that are willing to go under this security umbrella and forswear their own nuclear ambitions.'"

Just imagine what the reaction would be if she had uttered these words on September 12, 2001. Has that much changed?