WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., hoping to buoy her presidential campaign, Monday criticized Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy resume.
Clinton said Obama sways from "mediation and meetings without preconditions" to "rash military action" on how to confront world issues, ABC News reported.
Clinton told a George Washington University audience she could restore a U.S. foreign policy that balanced diplomacy and military strength -- then drew parallels between Obama and President George Bush when he took office.
"We've seen the tragic result of having a president who had neither the experience nor the wisdom to manage our foreign policy and safeguard our national security," she said. "We can't let that happen again."
She assailed two facets of the Illinois senator's foreign policy proposals from the last year. She said his suggestion of meeting with leaders hostile to the United States without preconditions "may sound good but it doesn't meet the real-world test of foreign policy," ABC reported.
She also took him to task for saying he would, with actionable intelligence, be willing to send U.S. troops into Pakistan to take out al-Qaida targets with or without permission from the Pakistani government.
