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In reply to the discussion: If Hillary is going to run to Obama's right on foreign policy, and it seems she will... [View all]Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)All that's missing is the smirk and cowboy boots.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0810/Hillary-Clinton-joins-critics-of-Obama-s-response-to-ISIS-in-Iraq
President Obama's latest moves in Iraq a combination of air strikes and air drops of humanitarian aid were roundly criticized by Republicans Sunday. And, Hillary Clinton sounded remarkably like a Republican this week, distancing herself from the current administration.
That comment about Syria sounds very similar to one made this week by Hillary Clinton, Obama's former Secretary of State and possible 2016 presidential candidate.
The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assadthere were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middlethe failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled, Mrs. Clinton told The Atlantic.
"One of the reasons why I worry about whats happening in the Middle East right now is because of the breakout capacity of jihadist groups that can affect Europe, can affect the United States, she said. Jihadist groups are governing territory. They will never stay there, though. They are driven to expand. Their raison detre is to be against the West, against the Crusaders, against the fill-in-the-blankand we all fit into one of these categories. How do we try to contain that? Im thinking a lot about containment, deterrence, and defeat.