It Begins: Hillary Blames Rise of ISIS on Obama’s Lack of Action in Syria

by Duane Lester | August 11, 2014 5:03 pm

She’s so running for president in 2016:[1]

hillary-clinton-barack-obama[2]

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton blamed the rise of Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria on failures of US policy under President Barack Obama, in an interview published Sunday.

Clinton specifically faulted the US decision to stay on the sidelines of the insurgency against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad as opening the way for the most extreme rebel faction, the Islamic State.

“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 told the Atlantic.

Clinton, widely considered an undeclared presidential candidate, was an unsuccessful advocate of arming the Syrian rebels when she was secretary of state during Obama’s first term.

She was interviewed before the US president’s decision Thursday to order limited air strikes to check an IS offensive into Kurdistan, which threatened US nationals and facilities and sent thousands of refugees fleeing into the mountains.

Obama, who oversaw the US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, vowed not to send US troops back into the country and said Iraqis needed to confront the jihadist threat by forming an inclusive unity government.

Create distance so you’re not associated with the failures. That will help with the next campaign.

If it’s one thing these folks are good at, it’s blaming the previous president.

From the New York Times[3]:

“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” Mrs. Clinton said, referring to the line that Mr. Obama has used with aides and reporters to describe his reluctance to inject the United States into messy foreign conflicts.

Mrs. Clinton said she assumed the line was more a “political message” for a war-weary American public than his actual worldview – an interpretation that makes her words even more stinging, since “don’t do stupid stuff” was in fact the animating principle for the new foreign policy blueprint that Mr. Obama laid out at West Point in May.

Is there any doubt she’s running? I have none. What about you?

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit[4]

See also: Joe Geoghagan Is A 31 Year Old Veteran And He’s Begging The VA Not To Let Him Starve To Death[5]

Triple Amputee Veteran’s “Screw You” Letter To Obama Goes Viral![6]

The Problem With Airbrushing Kim Kardashian[7]

Endnotes:
  1. president in 2016:: http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-blames-islamic-militants-rise-obama-policies-195239199.html;_ylt=AwrSyCNN8edTnRMAGVDQtDMD
  2. [Image]: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-e1407790979500.jpg
  3. New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/world/middleeast/attacking-obama-policy-hillary-clinton-exposes-different-worldviews.html?_r=0
  4. Gateway Pundit: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/ouch-hillary-clinton-blames-rise-of-islamic-militants-on-obama-policies/
  5. Joe Geoghagan Is A 31 Year Old Veteran And He’s Begging The VA Not To Let Him Starve To Death: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/john-hawkins/joe-geoghagan-is-a-31-year-old-veteran-and-hes-begging-the-va-not-to-let-him-starve-to-death/%20
  6. Triple Amputee Veteran’s “Screw You” Letter To Obama Goes Viral!: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/barack-obama/triple-amputee-veterans-screw-you-letter-to-obama-goes-viral/%20
  7. The Problem With Airbrushing Kim Kardashian: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/uncategorized/the-problem-with-airbrushing-kim-kardashian/%20

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