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Syria Situation: What Would Hillary Do?...... (Original Post) global1 Aug 2013 OP
Pretty much the same as Obama and Kerry Autumn Aug 2013 #1
My guess is we'd have already bombed Syria and Iran Taverner Aug 2013 #2
^^^this^^^ nt irisblue Aug 2013 #4
Yeh, Iran maybe even back in 2009. JackRiddler Aug 2013 #5
My guess would be sorta like your guess. Whisp Aug 2013 #8
Hasn't she done enough by stirring up this bloody civil war? leveymg Aug 2013 #3
I suppose it is "inevitable" that we will find out. mick063 Aug 2013 #6
See: Bush/Syria warhawks 2005. blm Aug 2013 #7
The same cohort that today says we MUST attack becaues of the chem weapons were furious that Bluenorthwest Aug 2013 #9
My guess is she will stay quiet on this topic. Jefferson23 Aug 2013 #10
go to war gopiscrap Aug 2013 #11
 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
8. My guess would be sorta like your guess.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 01:36 PM
Aug 2013

Let's not forget that she and Petraeus were cahooting on Syria together.

Petraeus, the little meglomaniac caeser. the people she hangs out with! bleh.

 

mick063

(2,424 posts)
6. I suppose it is "inevitable" that we will find out.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 01:33 PM
Aug 2013

If she can talk the current administration into it, she can claim she inherited the situation.

Not to dissimilar to the bank bailouts that President Obama "inherited". Don't agree? Check out his actions/words as "President elect" leading up to inauguration.

blm

(113,015 posts)
7. See: Bush/Syria warhawks 2005.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 01:35 PM
Aug 2013

She was never considered an honest broker there, and was unreliable for those who were working towards a diplomatic solution.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
9. The same cohort that today says we MUST attack becaues of the chem weapons were furious that
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 01:40 PM
Aug 2013

Clinton said she's attack Iran if they NUKED their neighbor. Folks said it was war mongering to say we'd react to an unprovoked nuclear attack but now they say the opposite, that we are compelled to action by such egregious acts of war.

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
10. My guess is she will stay quiet on this topic.
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 01:40 PM
Aug 2013

If you want to run for POTUS it does not serve you to comment on such a mess
as this one...there is no clear approach from Obama on what he'll do. The US citizens
support is not by any measure overwhelmingly approved, and the UK just told Obama,
forget it.

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