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Hillary Clinton still wouldn't give up on training Syrian rebels
CBS NEWS September 22, 2015, 12:01 AM
Hillary Clinton still wouldn't give up on training Syrian rebels
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton advocated early on for training and equipping moderate Syrian rebels to help fight Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. At that time, near the end of summer 2012, the president disagreed with her, only to authorize the program two years later after she had left office.
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Clinton wrote extensively about her advocacy for a train-and-equip program in her 2014 memoir, "Hard Choices."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-history-with-arming-syrian-rebels/
Hillary Clinton still wouldn't give up on training Syrian rebels
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton advocated early on for training and equipping moderate Syrian rebels to help fight Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. At that time, near the end of summer 2012, the president disagreed with her, only to authorize the program two years later after she had left office.
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Clinton wrote extensively about her advocacy for a train-and-equip program in her 2014 memoir, "Hard Choices."
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"There are real risks to such an approach," she said in the book, citing the Afghan rebels the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Pakistan armed during the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s who later formed al Qaeda.
"But if rebels could be vetted and trained effectively, it would be helpful in a number of ways. First, even a relatively small group might be able to give a big psychological boost to the opposition and convince Assad's backers to consider a political solution," she wrote.
Clinton argued that the U.S. was sacrificing the chance to bring order to the flow of weapons coming to Syria from various Arab states. Those weapons often went to competing armed groups or found their way into the hands of extremists.
The key, she said, was "vetting the rebel fighters to ensure we first weeded out the extremists."
more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-history-with-arming-syrian-rebels/
"But if rebels could be vetted and trained effectively, it would be helpful in a number of ways. First, even a relatively small group might be able to give a big psychological boost to the opposition and convince Assad's backers to consider a political solution," she wrote.
Clinton argued that the U.S. was sacrificing the chance to bring order to the flow of weapons coming to Syria from various Arab states. Those weapons often went to competing armed groups or found their way into the hands of extremists.
The key, she said, was "vetting the rebel fighters to ensure we first weeded out the extremists."
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