But, she successfully dodged Bosnian sniper fire while sprinting off a plane.

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By Paul Mulshine | The Star Ledger 
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on August 18, 2016 at 6:50 PM, updated August 18, 2016 at 6:51 PM

State Senator Mike Doherty sent me an amusing message after I noted that Hillary Clinton is a dangerous person because of her stated desire to confront Russia militarily in Syria:

"Hillary Clinton was against the Cambodian incursion during the Vietnam War but now wants to enter Syria and shoot down Russian planes? Isn't that a little crazy?"

More than a little crazy, I’d say.

Clinton’s call for a no-fly zone over Syria would not only risk World War III with Russia; it would also be a great aid to ISIS, which has no air force and would be able to take even more territory in the absence of Russian and Syrian fighter attacks.

Doherty is a West Point grad with a good knowledge of military history. And until I read that message, I never quite realized just how thoroughly confused Clinton is in that regard.

How could you have opposed American intervention in Southeast Asia and now support American intervention in the Mideast?

But her foreign policy is just one of Clinton’s many negatives.

Is there a single thing Clinton accomplished in all her years as First Lady, then New York Senator and then Secretary of State?

I can’t think of any.

But maybe you can. If so please list these in the comments section. Be specific. General comments about her demeanor and experience will add nothing to the conversation.

Also, please leave her opponent out of it. There’s plenty written about him.

This is about her.

In the meantime, I invite you to ponder this column on Clinton I wrote in 2008, when she was running in the Democratic presidential primary against Barack Obama.

Note that even back then she was a darling of the so-called “ eo" conservative wing of the Republican Party – which is just the mirror image of the Wilsonian wing of the Democratic Party.

All of us traditional conservatives consider both to be forms of liberalism.

Also note that at the time of this writing, Obama was still on the record against the individual mandate that became the basis of Obamacare.

The original headline was quite prescient in light of the number of neocons now supporting her. It was “Conservatives for Clinton?"

Back in the 1970s when I was a young reporter, I got a winter rental by the beach with two old friends.

One day, one of them came home with a Barry White album. He did it as a joke, he said. At our next party we all got a good laugh listening to the corny lyrics mouthed by the deep-voiced singer.

That was fun. But then my housemate started playing the album regularly, all the while laughing at its corniness. So one night when he was out, the other guy and I took it to the end of the block and threw it into the ocean like a Frisbee.

We had peace and quiet for a while. But then our housemate came home with another copy of the album. It was then we realized that he wasn't kidding. He really liked Barry White.

Something similar is going on with the so-called "neoconservatives" and Hillary Clinton. Among us old-time conservatives, Clinton has always represented what Eleanor Roosevelt represented for conservatives in a prior era.

She was the progressive ideologue behind a president who at least made some effort to appear pragmatic.

Ten years ago, I wrote a column comparing her gaze to that of the infamous Nurse Ratched in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." (See video below.)

In it, I noted that actress Louise Fletcher "had to work hard to achieve the look and mannerisms of a power-crazed control freak. With Hillary, it comes naturally.”

That assessment was a bit uncharitable perhaps. Yet back in the good old days of conservatism that remark represented the consensus on Clinton.

In the Bush era, however, we are seeing an amazing phenomenon. A number of people who consider themselves to be conservatives are actually pushing the Clinton candidacy.

It started as a joke, like my friend's flirtation with Barry White. A few months ago, neoconservative front man Rush Limbaugh began what he termed "Operation Chaos." This was an effort to get Republicans to cross the lines in primary elections and vote for Clinton over Barack Obama.

Limbaugh’s stated theory was that this would prolong the Democratic primary to the advantage of Republicans.

As far as that went, it wasn't a bad idea. Any state political party dumb enough to open its primary process to members of the opposition party deserves whatever it gets.

But then I began to see unmistakable signs that these guys were serious. The neocons really did want Hillary to win over Obama.

In the past few weeks, as Obama has consolidated his lead, these characters began to protest too much. Instead of merely watching the fun from a distance, they jumped into the fray, openly advocating for Clinton. (Update: Here's an amusing column from Steve Kornacki, now of MSNBC, in which he cites a prior column of mine to that effect.)

They even began to offer the usual conspiracy theories about media bias. To hear the nattering nabobs of neoconservatism tell it, the liberal media are ganging up on Hillary. That just doesn't make sense.

I have spent a quarter-century or so railing against liberal bias in the media.

But the theory that the liberals are conspiring against a liberal for being liberal is ludicrous.

Something else is going on in what I like to call “ he streetwalker media," that brave neo world in which the concept of conservatism has been hijacked by characters like Rupert Murdoch and the various talking heads he purchases.

I don't dislike Murdoch. In fact I've always been partial to loud Aussies. But something’s a bit weird when the loud Aussie in question both claims to speak for American conservatism and also hosts a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton.

Then there are the neo-Cans, all of those Canadian imports like David Frum, Charles Krauthammer et al. These guys spend as much time attacking traditional American conservatism as they do promoting a vision of internationalism that is literally foreign to the American conservative way of thought.

But their vision dovetails nicely with Clinton's, at least when it comes to employing the American military in all of those nation-building exercises George W. Bush promised us he would avoid.

Of course, that was back when Bush was first running for president in 2000. And by the traditional conservative standard Bush set that year, Obama is to the right of Clinton on foreign policy.

He’s also slightly to the right of her on domestic policy.

Both are entirely dreadful in that regard, but on the one issue on which they had a prominent disagreement, mandatory health insurance, Obama's vision was much more conservative than Clinton's - and also more conservative than that of two unsuccessful GOP presidential hopefuls who embraced that awful idea. (Update: I was talking about Mitt Romney, who of course later got the 2012  GOP nomination despite the fact he pioneered Obamacare.)

So on balance, an Obama presidency would probably be slightly better than a Clinton presidency, at least in light of traditional conservative views of governance. We'd better hope so, anyway. With their brilliant theories on foreign policy, the neocons have paved the way for a Republican disaster at the polls this year.

As for me, I am content in the notion that I warned the world against George Bush in 2000 and again in 2004.

And I am also content that I will no more have to face the prospect of a President Hillary Clinton than I will have to face the prospect of ever again listening to the music of Barry White.

(END NOTE: I hope I didn’t speak too soon on that one.)

BELOW: The liberal group Media Matters for America did a search of comparisons between Hillary Clinton and Nurse Ratched of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." I'm proud to say I was one of the first to note the connection. Also I find it puzzling that the liberals find the comparison unflattering to Clinton. I thought a person like Nurse Ratched would be seen as a role model by the typical liberal.)