Trump is being willfully stupid about Saddam Hussein. So is Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, believes that because Saddam Hussein was a brutal and erratic dictator, he needed to be removed to open the possibility to a better future for Iraq — the only solution to the root cause of terrorism. But removing Hussein led Iraq into chaos instead — a chaos that has now spread well beyond Iraq’s borders. Notwithstanding this manifest failure, Clinton went on to support regime change in Libya — with similarly chaotic results that she has similarly ignored. Her great regret today appears to be that Syria has managed to descend into chaos largely without American help.

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Her response to Trump — and the media pile-on that has parroted it — barely deigns to acknowledge that Trump is making an argument worth refuting. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who supported terrorism. Ergo, it cannot be possible that removing him from power was a bad idea that was doomed to make things worse. Trump purportedly learned “twisted lessons” from history — but what lessons did Clinton herself learn from a history she helped shape?

Clinton’s neoconservative tilt in foreign policy is not news — and that’s precisely what is wrong with it. She’s the candidate of experience, but she seems incapable of learning from it — her overall worldview is virtually unchanged from what it was 20 years ago. If Trump’s views feel like little more than an emotional reflex, Clinton’s feel eerily faith-based. And the one thing they appear to share in common is a groundless conviction in the efficacy of force properly applied.

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