The Heat interviewed filmmaker Oliver Stone and his colleague, professor Peter Kuznick, Wednesday. As a part of our web series One More Question, host Anand Naidoo asked them what they thought about Hillary Clinton running for president.
Stone said a Hillary Clinton White House would be “more of the same.” Kuznick said that while her domestic policy would be good, her international policy would not.
“Her domestic policy would probably be OK. She’s good on domestic issues. Good on women’s issues certainly, reproductive rights issues. But when it comes to foreign policy, she’s awful,” Kuznik said.
“She supported the invasion of Afghanistan, she supported the invasion of Iraq, she supported the invasion of Libya, she’s supported the bombing of Syria. I mean, this woman has never found a war she didn’t love. She’s like Margaret Thatcher when it comes to foreign policy. So even though her domestic policy might be better, her foreign policy is very dangerous.”
Stone said that he found it interesting that female leaders like Margaret Thatcher of the U.K., Golda Meir of Israel, and Indira Ghandi of India did not, in his view, promote peace.
“If a woman is supposed to represent a softer side of life, a feminine side, it would be a good woman who would preserve the peace. In the Greek drama sense of the word, Antigone. It’s odd that Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi… it’s the women that have driven so much of the violence once they get into… It seems as though Hillary Clinton has learned a lesson that you cannot be president unless you’re willing to be tougher than the men.” — Oliver Stone
Kuznick said that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was a “much more positive alternative.”