Why? Because it was a “local grievance,” and it wasn’t our place to get involved. (Sound familiar?) Of course, now that getting involved is politically popular, Hillary has changed her tune.
On Wednesday, Clinton said: that the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram was “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of Nigeria.” Clinton said that as Secretary of State she had numerous meetings with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and had urged the Nigerian government to do more on counterterrorism…What Clinton didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the UN headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen Senators and Congressmen.
“The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn’t use. And nobody can say she wasn’t urged to do it. It’s gross hypocrisy,” said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate.
As much as people screamed that George W. Bush was a dangerous warmonger who was going to blow up the world, at least you know he would have called a spade a spade when it came to Boko Haram. It took celebrity activism for the Democrats to finally label them terrorists and vow to do something about it.