Dear Hillary Clinton: When did not bombing Syria create Isis?
http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/hillary-clinton-bombing.html
Dear Hillary Clinton: When did not bombing Syria create Isis?
By contributors | Aug. 21, 2014
By Fariborz S Fatemi
Hillary Clintons criticism of Barack Obama on Syria and the rise of Isis is wrong, and an exercise in selective memory. When did not bombing Syria create ISIS? In her interview with The Atlantic magazine, the former secretary of state fails to point out that the president wanted to bomb Syria but was prevented from doing so by Congress, which did not authorise it.
Furthermore, by not bombing and with the use of wise diplomacy, the president successfully brought the chemical weapons out of Syria. Furthermore, is it credible that bombing Syria and arming the invisible moderates would have made a difference? Contrary to Mrs Clintons comments, they were armed.
If past and present events are any guide, most of the weapons given to the opponents of President Bashar al-Assad (during her tenure) have fallen into the hands of the most extremist elements of that opposition. Could it be that our premier diplomat did not learn that diplomacy is the best way forward?
Peace, progress and prosperity is a slogan and not an organising principle. And yes, after eight years of Bush/Cheney foreign policy, not doing stupid things is an organising principle.