Hillary Clinton is not George W. Bush, but every day it is becoming more and more difficult to see that.

During one of the worst Presidential debates in television history on ABC last week Sen. Clinton made a comment suggesting Iran would have a major price to pay if they ever attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.

That in itself is fine.

But the implication was that Clinton was threatening to strike Iran with nuclear weapons.  In an interview last Monday the Senator from New York confirmed just that when she told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann "their use of nuclear weapons against Israel would provoke a nuclear response from the United States."

Many may see this threat from Clinton as a sign of strength, but the reality is it is a continuation of the George W. Bush belligerence which has proved to be so diplomatically devastating over the past eight years.

Threatening another nation with nuclear weapons is not OK.  Even in a hypothetical scenario in which that nation has used nuclear weapons against our ally.

Even Sen. Clinton's husband had a more diplomatic and measured approach to the U.S. use of nuclear weapons. 

The Bill Clinton policy on a nuclear attack was actually to not strike back with a nuclear weapon after the first nuclear attack on the U.S.

The reason?  Bill Clinton didn't want to start a nuclear holocaust over a possible mistake.  If we were hit twice or if the first strike came along with a declaration of war from another nation then a nuclear response would be on the table.

Hillary Clinton is now saying that rather than take that more reasonable, safer approach, she would not only strike back with nuclear force immediately, but she would do it and risk global nuclear war even if one of our allies was attacked.

That, my friends, is crazy talk.

The policy to strike back with a nuclear weapon is bad enough, but to run around during a campaign and flaunt that policy is insane.

In fact, that George W. Bush cowboy talk is precisely why we are losing ground as the global super power.

Any psychologist will tell you that the playground bully, who makes all sorts of belligerent threats, is simply overcompensating for some sort of weakness.  And most people understand that.

The real "tough guy" is the guy who doesn't have to talk about how tough he is.  He stands there with a quiet confidence and with the knowledge that everyone else knows not to mess with him.

The U.S. used to be that cool tough guy, but that is no longer the case. 

George W. Bush has turned us into the over compensating playground bully that nobody likes and Hillary Clinton has vowed to continue being the belligerent bully.

For all of Clinton's talk about how bad a job George W. Bush has done as president, and how we need to avoid a "third term" of President Bush, she sure is adopting a lot of his policies.  War with Iraq, potential war with Iran, an unwillingness to engage in diplomacy with our enemies and now threatening the world with a nuclear attack, Hillary Clinton as President will push a continuation of the failed Bush foreign policy.