Ms. Jenny Willford’s puff letter for recruiting women into Democratic Party politics (“Historic year for women,” Daily Camera Open Forum, May 12) — and tangentially a Hillary promo — left a few things unsaid that should be said.

Cynthia McKinney, formerly a six-term U.S. congressperson from Georgia, ran for president on the Green Party ticket in 2008. She was elected as a Democrat while in Congress. Jill Stein, a physician, ran for president as a Green in 2012 and probably will be its nominee in 2016. Hillary isn’t the only female presidential aspirant in recent American politics.

Ms. Clinton’s inglorious years as secretary of state were an unmitigated disaster for women — just ask those women who have survived the horrific American “interventions” and “regime changes” instigated by her and her associates, surrogates and appointees. That is, those women who actually have lived through her unkind attentions. Many women, almost all civilians, died — murdered is a more accurate term — from American foreign policy activities during the four years she was Madame Secretary. Oh, I forget, these women were merely “collateral damage” of “responsibility to protect” operations initiated by Empire America and friends. Best not to mention the fates that await their children — those surviving kids not killed directly by American-supplied weaponry or indirectly by starvation, malnutrition, disease, and untended wounds.

The atrocities committed against women and their children during Clinton’s watch at State (2009-13) are staggering in number, particularly in post-putsch Honduras (2009) and still ongoing in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, the latter nation’s internal and external refugee total now estimated to be in the range of 11 million people.

There are some forward spirits who think that Hillary should be in prison at the Hague, awaiting prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity. But then, this wouldn’t fit the media-generated persona of a potential American president, would it?

Dave Morton

Longmont