Posted on 03/04/2016 7:46:40 PM PST by Lorianne
From the earliest days of the Libya debate, Mrs. Clinton was a diligent student and unrelenting inquisitor, absorbing fat briefing books, inviting dissenting views from subordinates, studying foreign counterparts to learn how to win them over. She was a pragmatist, willing to improvise — to try the bank-shot solution. But above all, in the view of many who have watched her up close, her record on Libya illustrates how, facing a national-security or foreign-policy quandary, she was inclined to act — in marked contrast to Mr. Obama’s more reticent approach.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, her director of policy planning at the State Department, notes that in conversation and in her memoir, Mrs. Clinton repeatedly speaks of wanting to be “caught trying.” In other words, she would rather be criticized for what she has done than for having done nothing at all.
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John Batchelor interviews one of the authors ... a very detailed interview I highly recommend it.
Rational summary: Benghazi Clinton does stupid stuff and gets expected stupid results.
Libya’s Gadaffi had been frightened into cooperating with the United States. Egypt’s Mubarak was an ally of the United States. So, of course, they had to be eliminated.
Too bad Chris Stevens wasn’t selling Libyan cattle futures?
Her drunken mocking of his brutal lynching should have been the end of her being taken seriously by anyone.
She wasn’t “caught trying” to send help to the poor embassy martyrs.
Really? The first few sentences are nothing but a butt-kissing contest.
Later
And just how does a drunk absorb fat briefing books ? Don’t you mean her subordinates read the briefings and prepared a short summary for their drunken Queen to glance through ?
Former UK Ambassador To Syria: US/UK Foreign Policy Is Doomed, Even Corrupt
The first paragraph reveals how the rest of the article will go. Hillary is a foreign policy genius. That is why the Middle East is in such great shape today. People who support this woman and write such crap should be arrested.
She is a former presidents wife with on the job training and thats all she is or ever will be
Read on.
bkmk
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