If Only Hillary Had Been In a Position to Influence U.S. Foreign Policy!
This morning we hear Hillary Clinton make her most explicit criticism of her old boss, President Obama, telling The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, "Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle."
If only she had been in some sort of official position where she could offer and establish a set of organizing principles for U.S. foreign policy!
She also laments, "One issue is that we don't even tell our own story very well these days."
If only she had some position or role where she could help tell the American story!
She tells Goldberg, "One of the reasons why I worry about what's 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."
Indeed, which is why one would think our State Department would listen to the warnings of our ambassadors in places, like, say, Benghazi...Also read:
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Hillary Clinton: "There’s a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he’s (Assad) a reformer.” – March 2011
ReplyDeleteFrom Commentary Magazine today-
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/08/12/team-obama-to-hillary-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/
A couple highlights...
"Still, when Mrs. Clinton says that “the failure to help build up a credible fighting force” against President Bashar al-Assad in Syria “left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” the suggestion is that Mr. Obama’s refusal to arm the rebels might end up being a singular misjudgment. But at the time of the Obama administration’s internal debate over that decision, several officials said, Mrs. Clinton’s advocacy was far less thunderous: The United States had tried every diplomatic gambit with Syria, she said, and nothing else had worked, so why not try funneling weapons to the moderate rebels."
"As Mrs. Clinton stakes out her own foreign policy positions in advance of a possible campaign for the White House, it is only natural that some of her statements will not be entirely in sync with her record as secretary of state, when she served at the pleasure of the president."
"Clinton was hardly a dissenting voice in the Obama administration. She sometimes disagreed, but equivocated when doing so."
"For Clinton, her weakness continues to be her Clintonian lack of principle and authenticity. Whatever their reasons for backing Clinton, it’s doubtful any of her supporters thinks Clinton believes anything. To Clinton there are no facts, only focus groups. She is yet another representation of the modern Democratic Party’s identity politics: it isn’t what she thinks that matters, but what she represents. The Obama team’s rebuttal of her attempts to throw the sitting president under the bus constitutes a warning to be careful what she wishes for. She may want to pivot to the general election already, but non-liberals might not be so enthused about her constant attempts at misdirection and reinvention."
America can ill-afford another weak, non-principled, finger in the wind, lying Commander-In-Chief come 2016.