Hillary Clinton

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.

US President Barack Obama
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.

Clinton, however, suggested in the interview that Obama lacked a strategy for dealing with the jihadist threat.

“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” she said referring to an Obama slogan.

She said the United States must develop an “overarching” strategy to confront Islamist extremism, likening it to the long US struggle against Soviet-led communism.

“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,” she said. “Jihadist groups are governing territory. They will never stay there, though. They are driven to expand. Their raison d’etre is to be against the West, against the Crusaders, against the fill-in-the-blank-and we all fit into one of these categories.

“How do we try to contain that? I’m thinking a lot about containment, deterrence, and defeat,” she said.

Her arguments, seen as an attempt to distance herself from Obama, echoed those of Republican critics who accuse Obama of allowing a power vacuum to develop by failing to bring US leadership to bear in conflicts from Syria to Iraq to Ukraine.
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/08/10/clinton-blames-islamic-militants-rise-on-obama-policies/

hmmm

blame game

So as Secretary of State she was that powerless right? She contributed to the foreign policies and didn't protest about them till now, talk of trying to throw Obama under the bus to make herself look the better person indirectly saying I would have been a better president than Obama.


Sigh, failure and success must be credited to the president

Game on. 2016 on her mind.

I think better to say on US policy. This has been the case before Obama.

I am tired of the f'king Bush and Clinton families over extended stay in US politics .... please give room for others with new/fresher ideas

ok. goodmorning nigeria

Politics! There is nothing a seating president always do right in the eye of opposition. We understand, you will right the wrong when u are there.

story for the gods

2016 things...why didnt she say this when she was under him..She want to contest for presidency

Dumb bitch ....Isis is anti bashar you are anti bashar, therefore you would b teamed up with ISIs in Syria ...tho you did ...so why throwing your buddy under the Bus ? Last time I checked ISIs left Syria to create their caliphate

Wonder what fellis and deols are still doing in Nigeria tho

Okimski: Politics! There is nothing a seating president always do right in the eye of opposition. We understand, you will right the wrong when u are there.

Hilary is no opposition, she's just dumb and trying to distance herself from Obama, furthermore the Clintons don't really like Obama + she's yet to swallow her removal as Secretary of state

This woman just shot herself on the foot. Not that she would have made a great president but her inconsistencies over the years especially while she was in the senate is enough sign to power brokers of how unreliable she is. Even Bush(jnr) with all his unsure body language kept foot with his personal policies which ofcourse are in line with their national foreign policy.

And I blame Bush for bombing WTC and blaming it on the so called extremists.

Hilary..... Have a seat!

I wonder what's wrong with etisalat this morning

Hillary is just preparing to run for president, but why she attempts to distance herself from obama, she should know that he is the most liberal democratic president since LBJ and he is greatly loved in the party, he has advanced liberal policies more than her husband and even repeal some of her husbands laws than liberals hated e.g DOMA. So if she pisses off obama he can lend his support to somebody like elizabeth warren and clinton will be finished because democrats will see her as a reincarnation of her husband and his centrist policies.

Politics everywhere is getting more dirty and ugly. People are trying to benefit from other people's failure.

To a greenhorn in politics; Obama, unlike a US President, seem not to know what to do with power in terms of foreign policy. But, the fact is that he is trying to avoid the mistake of George Bush. W, who spent all his years in office meddling into other countries affair, only to fail in moving his country forward. If he had toed the path of Bush, Obama wouldn't have been re-elected.

In all, this indirect attack on Obama's foreign policy is going to set H. Clinton against the voters who are beginning to see their government as a 'bully'. The ordinary American want their government to concentrate more on domestic affairs, than always playing the 'Big brother'. The last thing Americans want; is a President that is beating the drums of war cos wars are prosecuted with money- America's tax payers money!- This statement would come back to haunt her later in her campaigns.

As If they are not the originator of terrorism in the middle east, as if they don't have hand in terrorist/terrorism attacks in the middle east.

Always playing politics in everything.

And she should stop calling terrorists "jihadist" or "islamist" a terrorists is a terrorists.

She should GO n Die ; Obama is d best president d U.S has ever had ; whether she likes it or yes; ... She should just get out!!!b

hmm am sure if she ws d president she would have even done worse dan what Obama has even done sef. she iz indirectly syin she would hav been a more better president dan Obama

Just like arming the rebels in Libya seemed like the right choice then, has she seen what is happening in tripoli & benghazi now? Yet she is still advocating for the syrian rebels...Imagine all those ammo & gagdets getting into the wrong hands in an already volatile middle east!

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But wait o...... This is the 10th time Am on First page today o...


What a great way to celebrate ma BD. 'wink.

Abeg I deserve an award!!

She must have taken lessons from Baba Iyabo.

None of my business.

Hey @ OP

Which bandwidth theft is that?

She's right US foreign policy in the middle east is giving room for jihadists expansion seeing what boko boys can do i dey fear for dat area and world peace

Yes, his policy is faulty.

Obama should stop the rebels in syria and the syria people should go for free and fair election.

He should exert pressure and new prime minister should come up in iraq, the new prime minister that is capable to unite the iraqi people.

dis biatch shud stfu. isis were part of the syrian rebels financed and trained by the evil USA. now it has back fired. iraq syria libya Afghanistan are all waste lands after USA intervention. Russia and china shud go into and alliance and smoke dis yanks out of America .land stolen from red indians. this biatch hilary was meeting dis terrorist in secrets o. now she dey open her dirty mouth