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In reply to the discussion: With her speech today, HRC made herself the pro-slaughter candidate. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)willingness to stick our noses into everybody else's business.
Libya: In late 2012, the New York Times reported that weapons from a US-approved deal had eventually gone to Islamic militants in Libya. The deal, which involved European weapons sent to Qatar as well as US weapons originally supplied to the United Arab Emirates, had been managed from the sidelines by the Obama administration.
Syria: More than once, American arms intended to help bolster the fight against ISIS in Syria and northern Iraq have ended up in the group's control. Last October, an airdrop of small arms was blown off target by the wind, according to the Guardian. ISIS quickly posted a video of its fighters going through crates of weapons attached to a parachute.
Iraq: American weapons supplied to the Iraqi army have also found their way ISIS via theft and capture. And weapons meant for the Iraqi army have also gone to Shiite militias backed by Iran. This isn't a new problem: As much as 30 percent of the weapons the United States distributed to Iraqi forces between 2004 and early 2007 could not be accounted for.
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Somalia: In 2011, Wired reported that as much as half of the US-supplied arms given to Uganda and Burundi in support of the fight against al-Shabaab was winding up with the Somali militant group.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/pentagon-arms-lost-missing-yemen
As Secretary of State in the Obama administration from January 2009 to February 2013, Clinton was at the forefront of the U.S. response to the Arab Spring and advocated the U.S. military intervention in Libya. She took responsibility for security lapses related to the 2012 Benghazi attack, which resulted in the deaths of American consulate personnel, but defended her personal actions in regard to the matter.
Hillary could not go to these countries and pick up weapons our military lost. But as Secretary of State, Hillary had an obligation to remind the President and our military leaders that after you have finished playing with your toys, you need to put them away neatly. And if you played with them out of your house, you need to make sure that you bring them back in so that no one will take them and so that they don't get wet and ruined.
These incidents happened while Hillary was Secretary of State.
Keeping us safe means making sure we don't leave weapons in the hands of the bad guys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton