Last month Hillary said removing Assad was the top priority in Syria

[jfern]

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday said removing President Bashar al-Assad is the top priority in Syria.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/05/us-usa-election-clinton-syria-idUSKCN0RZ1C020151005

Assad, Al Qaeda, and ISIS are in 3-way war. If you want Assad out, you side with the jihadists who just attacked Paris.


She also said that she supports a no fly zone where Russian planes are flying. Obama and Bernie both oppose that. The Russian planes are going after the jihadists.

[AtomicKitten]

1. I don't want her anywhere near the levers of government.

Her neoliberal proclivities are frightening.

[marym625]

3. +1

[passiveporcupine]

13. Hear Hear!

She terrifies me.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

17. +100²

[marym625]

2. there you go, being logical and all.

As long as we go to war, what difference does it make against whom?

Fuck this warmongering bullshit

[AtomicKitten]

4. +1

[reformist2]

5. We need to be on the side of DEFUNDING - ALL the sides of ALL conflicts over there.

[David__77]

6. What did she actually say?

The context could be very important to me.

[jfern]

7. I couldn't find

[AtomicKitten]

8. Found it.

Don't know how to copy this particular video.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/follow-live-hillary-clinton-today-show-town-hall-n438471

It's the third video down on foreign policy.

[Cheese Sandwich]

9. She blamed President Obama for the rise of ISIS in Syria...

She threw right wing talking points at the President, basically implying he was soft on terrorists. Just for her own political advantage. The mistake he really made was following her advice to arm the so-called "moderate" rebels trying to overthrow their government. That's when it started to spiral out of control, ISIS came in, and of course all the refugees flooding out.

And she sends Obama straight under the bus to suit her political needs of the moment.

Hillary Clinton Criticizes Obama on Syria Policy

"‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle"

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drew a foreign policy line between herself and President Obama in an interview this week, saying the President should have assisted Syrian rebels early in the bloody three-year conflict there, and issuing a dig at his Administration’s minimalist doctrine.

The Obama Administration’s wariness about assisting rebels out of fear that aid would fall into the hands of extremists was misguided and ineffectual, Clinton said in an interview with the Atlantic, and allowed for the rise of Islamic extremists who are now threatening to take over wide swaths of Iraq.

“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad — there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle — the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said.
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Clinton also criticized Obama’s foreign policy mantra on careful American foreign involvement, using a less foul-mouthed version of a doctrinal phrase that began emerging from the White House earlier this year. “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” Clinton said.
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http://time.com/3097964/hillary-clinton-syria-isis-the-atlantic/

[zentrum]

10. It's a mess.

Created by Neo-cons. The only thing I'm sure of, is I do not feel safer with HRC's analysis or the reasons she has the foreign policy positions she has. In fact, she really scares me on this score.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. She and Bill hang out with the Bush family....

People wonder where she gets her ideas.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. Hilary has been out of sync with Obama many times

[frylock]

15. It's only "dissing" when the left is out of sync with Obama.

[Paka]

14. She may evolve on other things,

but she will be a warhawk to the bitter end.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. yes

[jfern]

18. Great news! Obama totally ignored her advice!