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"After the Islamist carnage in Paris, however, his first-term secretary of state on Thursday called for ramping it up against ISIS in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. Or sort of. "We must lead the world to meet this threat," Clinton told an assembly of liberals.
It's the foreign policy tag team of President Obama and Secretary Clinton that withdrew America from world leadership while shrinking the U.S. military. How credible is her call for "a new phase" against ISIS, with "a broader target set," "an immediate intelligence surge" and giving U.S. "troops advising and training the Iraqis greater freedom of movement and flexibility"?
"Without naming it, Clinton praised President Bush's 2007 Iraq surge, but charged that afterwards the Iraqis "were betrayed and forgotten." Betrayed by whom, Mrs. Clinton? By you and your boss, for whom withdrawal from Iraq was the only goal.
She refuses to consider sizable U.S. ground forces, but says "Congress should swiftly pass an updated authorization to use military force" — force the world knows we have no intention of using?
"Yet Clinton provides a wish list of Mideast diplomatic breakthroughs that a U.S. with no skin in the game will somehow bring about: "work with" Putin's Russia, get "our Arab and Turkish partners" to "step up in a much bigger way," bring in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, "counter Iranian influence across the region.' " . . .
"After the Islamist carnage in Paris, however, his first-term secretary of state on Thursday called for ramping it up against ISIS in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. Or sort of. "We must lead the world to meet this threat," Clinton told an assembly of liberals.
It's the foreign policy tag team of President Obama and Secretary Clinton that withdrew America from world leadership while shrinking the U.S. military. How credible is her call for "a new phase" against ISIS, with "a broader target set," "an immediate intelligence surge" and giving U.S. "troops advising and training the Iraqis greater freedom of movement and flexibility"?
"Without naming it, Clinton praised President Bush's 2007 Iraq surge, but charged that afterwards the Iraqis "were betrayed and forgotten." Betrayed by whom, Mrs. Clinton? By you and your boss, for whom withdrawal from Iraq was the only goal.
She refuses to consider sizable U.S. ground forces, but says "Congress should swiftly pass an updated authorization to use military force" — force the world knows we have no intention of using?
"Yet Clinton provides a wish list of Mideast diplomatic breakthroughs that a U.S. with no skin in the game will somehow bring about: "work with" Putin's Russia, get "our Arab and Turkish partners" to "step up in a much bigger way," bring in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, "counter Iranian influence across the region.' " . . .
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