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Why a nervous Hillary Clinton is remarkably silent on Syria
Telegraph ^ | 8/30/13 | Nile Gardiner

Posted on 08/31/2013 12:58:42 PM PDT by Libloather

**SNIP**

I suspect a number of factors are behind Hillary Clinton’s reticence. Firstly, a US military intervention in the Syrian civil war is strongly opposed by the vast majority of the American public. A recent poll showed just nine percent of Americans backing US military involvement. She probably doesn’t see another war in the Muslim world as a vote winner in 2016. Secondly, she may well be harbouring doubts over the White House approach, which beyond the talk of airstrikes, lacks a coherent strategy, and the president hasn’t exactly made a clear-cut case that taking America to war in Syria is in the national interest. Thirdly, as “the Obama doctrine” goes down in flames in the Middle East, from Damascus to Cairo, Clinton will be nervous about being seen as part and parcel of it, which of course she is.

Fourthly, Clinton’s own track record on Syria has hardly been stellar. Before Syria descended into war, Clinton was a strong backer of engagement with Syria, greatly underestimating the nature of the Baathist regime, famously referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a “reformer” in April 2011. In addition, as Washington’s most senior foreign policy official, Clinton did little to stand up to Moscow’s aggressive support for the Syrians, eager to appease the Russians through the controversial “reset” strategy, which was her own brainchild. In addition, the Secretary of State was weak in the face of Iran, whose military and financial backing for the Assad regime has been vital to its survival.

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She can (and will) crush your head.

1 posted on 08/31/2013 12:58:42 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
the miserable wretch knows better than to go on record either way... the election and all
2 posted on 08/31/2013 1:03:23 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Libloather
Thirdly, as “the Obama doctrine” goes down in flames in the Middle East, from Damascus to Cairo, Clinton will be nervous about being seen as part and parcel of it, which of course she is.

Just what the hell is the Obama Doctrine?

3 posted on 08/31/2013 1:05:46 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Libloather

Hillary— Traitor to THE ONE!


4 posted on 08/31/2013 1:05:51 PM PDT by Mark (Donate to FreeRepublic now.)
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To: Libloather

I wouldn’t want to have to call zer0 or this cankle harboring beyotch.


5 posted on 08/31/2013 1:06:09 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Libloather

I just noticed it in that picture, but she is looking more and more like Bill every day.


6 posted on 08/31/2013 1:06:46 PM PDT by GnL
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To: Libloather
smart power
7 posted on 08/31/2013 1:08:32 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Libloather
The next occupants of the White Crib:

8 posted on 08/31/2013 1:08:37 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Libloather

Let’s not pretend our strategy was any more coherent when she was wearing the pant-suits. This administration has been a foreign policy disaster. They have alienated our friends, been on the wrong side of just about every conflict, stabbed our allies in the back, and pissed off our traditional opponents.

Our President is a joke and nobody outside of the American media respects him. Shrillery must shoulder some of the blame for this.


9 posted on 08/31/2013 1:09:36 PM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: Libloather
ooops forgot the rest

I wouldn’t want to have to call zer0 or this cankle harboring beyotch, when there is a crisis, at 4AM.

10 posted on 08/31/2013 1:10:14 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Libloather

And what about the half million in Bling from the Saudis?


11 posted on 08/31/2013 1:10:18 PM PDT by Shady (It is called LIBERTY...Freedom linked to Responsibility. Any questions?)
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>> She can (and will) crush your head.

Tell ya what, focusing on that picture kinda gets the ball rolling on that head-crushing process. She doesn’t even need to be physically present!


12 posted on 08/31/2013 1:10:45 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Libloather

13 posted on 08/31/2013 1:10:58 PM PDT by llevrok ("It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words....." - Geo. Orwell)
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To: Libloather

14 posted on 08/31/2013 1:11:04 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SERKIT

fusilli Jerry! and Peyronies Bill.

did it have to be a corkscrew president?


15 posted on 08/31/2013 1:12:26 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Libloather

She can’t get into it or the world may find out about her (wink wink) weapons to Syria through Turkey and exactly what Ambassador Stevens knew.


16 posted on 08/31/2013 1:14:00 PM PDT by kempster
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To: carriage_hill

Front & center next Friday?


17 posted on 08/31/2013 1:14:45 PM PDT by lightman (Prosecute the heresies; pity the heretics.)
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To: Libloather
Have there been any articles posted on FR about the British Parliament's historic rejection of action against Syria?

Historic British Parliament Debate and Vote Rejects Syria Military Deployment

August 30, 2013 • 10:57AM

18 posted on 08/31/2013 1:15:46 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Libloather

Let us not forget she is only the former presidents wife with on the job training if you want to call it that and that is it! How in the world do we get these inexperienced elitist A holes in positoins of vital national security to f things up? Like zero who is in this to save face she is out of it as not to mess up her coronation in 2016.


19 posted on 08/31/2013 1:15:59 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Rummyfan
The Obama Doctrine :

Abortion on demand, paid for by US Taxpayers.

20 posted on 08/31/2013 1:16:10 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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