By Jonathan E.P. Moore
'IS HILLARY RUNNING TO OR FROM HER FOREIGN POLICY RECORD?'
Before I begin I felt like I should run this obvious scenario by you to see if you agree. Who noticed how conveniently Hillary reached the number she needs to be the nominee of the Socialist/Democratic Party the night before 6 primaries, and a too close to call California Primary? Do you think It might be to deter people from coming out and vote because of the already decided outcome? Naaah!!, that would be just a little to coincidental and something that Hillary and the ‘Paid to Report’ Media would never do, RIGHT??
ENOUGH OF THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT’S REIGN OF TERROR, AND THE BACKING OF THE ‘PAID TO REPORT’ MEDIA OVER TRUMP’S VERSION OF CONSERVATISM!! THE ‘AMERICA FIRST’ TRAIN, WHICH IS FUELD BY THE ‘WILL’ OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND IS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE STATION WITH OR WITHOUT ANY OF THE OLD GUARD TRAITORS WHO BACKED OBAMA AND HILLARY’S PLAY TO UNDERMINE THE CONSTITUTION AND BYPASS CONGRESS WITH EITHER OF THE TWO VERSIONS OF THIERS FAMOUS ‘PEN AND PHONE!’
The mouthpieces of the ‘Paid to Report’ Media keep bringing up the disconnect with the establishment GOP’ers which includes past Presidents who aren’t endorsing Trump or is it about the failed past of both party insiders causing close to $20 Trillion Dollar debt, and the look the other way cowardly Republican Party not sticking up for the American People and the constitution while Obama by passed Congress, and with that famous ‘Pen and Phone,’ wrote unconstitutional executive orders and Presidential memorandums to bypass the law of the land and Obama’s feckless foreign Policies that have destroyed the relationship between our allies and America! Last but not least is the destruction of our military forces and disrespect for our veterans! It’s all about the message, and not the messenger, and if you’re that thin skinned with that self-destructive eggshell personality, and self-righteous ideologue elitist who chooses Obama’s and Hillary’s continued vision for the future of America, then you owe your children, and their children’s children an apology for not giving them the same advantages that the Constitution and our founding fathers gave you while taking on the challenges of the world.
With the current approval rating of Congress by the American People being 12.8% and Donald Trump taking on and beating 17 other establishment combatants and want-to-be insiders, who have been exposed to be deceptive and divisive, and with a couple of them not eligible to be President of the United States due to the citizenship requirement as outlined in the Constitution of being Natural Born, like the current President Obama, I believe that the traitors of conservatism, who did not protect the ‘Will’ of the American People or kept us safe from the likes of the planted by the bipartisan establishment’s anti-American Obama, should sit down and shut up! The American People aren’t as stupid as bipartisan establishment’s party bosses and the ‘Paid to Report’ Media thinks they are, and with the ‘Common Sense Putney Poll’ showing that 73% of all Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents, after not being allowed to voice their opinion or cast a vote in either of the ‘Garden Party’s’ closed and fixed Primaries, which by the way doesn’t allow for the ‘Will,’ or voice of the American People to be heard, will not support any anti-American, anti-Constitutional substitution of ideology by our elected officials who apparently have lied to their constituents and said anything to get elected or reelected for the purpose of undermining the Independent and free path that has been outlined by our founding fathers!
The Obama and Hillary Alinsky game plan has made America
step back from the world stage, and by doing so allowed a cancer of Foreign
aggression and terror to spread to America and the rest of the world.
Ideologues who believe in a Socialist/Globalist society where the American
dream is only guaranteed to those who can afford it, and who don’t have to work for
it, stifles the basic American Dream concept and advancement of new ideas and
possibilities. The keys to the future of America as seen by the world is how
our perceived status by our enemy’s and allies remains being one of
Independent, free and self-determinate, and just not another country of minions
who can’t think for themselves and being led around and controlled by the
greedy and power hungry ideologues like the rest of the world!
Before I begin I felt like I should run this obvious scenario by you to see if you agree. Who noticed how conveniently Hillary reached the number she needs to be the nominee of the Socialist/Democratic Party the night before 6 primaries, and a too close to call California Primary? Do you think It might be to deter people from coming out and vote because of the already decided outcome? Naaah!!, that would be just a little to coincidental and something that Hillary and the ‘Paid to Report’ Media would never do, RIGHT??
ENOUGH OF THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT’S REIGN OF TERROR, AND THE BACKING OF THE ‘PAID TO REPORT’ MEDIA OVER TRUMP’S VERSION OF CONSERVATISM!! THE ‘AMERICA FIRST’ TRAIN, WHICH IS FUELD BY THE ‘WILL’ OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND IS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE STATION WITH OR WITHOUT ANY OF THE OLD GUARD TRAITORS WHO BACKED OBAMA AND HILLARY’S PLAY TO UNDERMINE THE CONSTITUTION AND BYPASS CONGRESS WITH EITHER OF THE TWO VERSIONS OF THIERS FAMOUS ‘PEN AND PHONE!’
The mouthpieces of the ‘Paid to Report’ Media keep bringing up the disconnect with the establishment GOP’ers which includes past Presidents who aren’t endorsing Trump or is it about the failed past of both party insiders causing close to $20 Trillion Dollar debt, and the look the other way cowardly Republican Party not sticking up for the American People and the constitution while Obama by passed Congress, and with that famous ‘Pen and Phone,’ wrote unconstitutional executive orders and Presidential memorandums to bypass the law of the land and Obama’s feckless foreign Policies that have destroyed the relationship between our allies and America! Last but not least is the destruction of our military forces and disrespect for our veterans! It’s all about the message, and not the messenger, and if you’re that thin skinned with that self-destructive eggshell personality, and self-righteous ideologue elitist who chooses Obama’s and Hillary’s continued vision for the future of America, then you owe your children, and their children’s children an apology for not giving them the same advantages that the Constitution and our founding fathers gave you while taking on the challenges of the world.
With the current approval rating of Congress by the American People being 12.8% and Donald Trump taking on and beating 17 other establishment combatants and want-to-be insiders, who have been exposed to be deceptive and divisive, and with a couple of them not eligible to be President of the United States due to the citizenship requirement as outlined in the Constitution of being Natural Born, like the current President Obama, I believe that the traitors of conservatism, who did not protect the ‘Will’ of the American People or kept us safe from the likes of the planted by the bipartisan establishment’s anti-American Obama, should sit down and shut up! The American People aren’t as stupid as bipartisan establishment’s party bosses and the ‘Paid to Report’ Media thinks they are, and with the ‘Common Sense Putney Poll’ showing that 73% of all Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents, after not being allowed to voice their opinion or cast a vote in either of the ‘Garden Party’s’ closed and fixed Primaries, which by the way doesn’t allow for the ‘Will,’ or voice of the American People to be heard, will not support any anti-American, anti-Constitutional substitution of ideology by our elected officials who apparently have lied to their constituents and said anything to get elected or reelected for the purpose of undermining the Independent and free path that has been outlined by our founding fathers!
If you don’t realize that Obama along with the corrupt
political establishment in America caused the rise of Donald Trump and his
simple message then we’re lost, and the future for the ‘Will’ of the American
People is dead! You have to understand that Hillary’s metaphors are the
equivalent of the ‘Paid to Report’ Media's half- truth! A metaphor is a figure of
speech that refers to something as being the same as another thing for
rhetorical effect. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities
between two ideas. Why am I bringing this up? Because Hillary’s “We should
build bridges and not walls,” refers to her, like Obama’s, disdain for the
Constitution and immigration law! A continuation of un-vetted refugees and
illegal immigrants who are living off the tax payer’s money and redirected
funds from the paid into by American people programs to his agenda of
destroying America. If you compare this stance to Trump's stance of slowing down
the process to vet all immigrants and refugees, and by doing so following laws that
are in place for immigration, which were put into place by the spirit and Constitution
of our founding fathers!
I’m have ‘FOX and FIENDS’ on in the background (6/08, 2016, 5:43AM), and they just announced another poll number about how even if Hillary is indicted that 50% say she should still be able to run for President of the United States. No name for the poll was given, but another obvious ploy to persuade the American People to be numb to the laws of the land and try to legitimize Hillary’s ‘holier than thou’ self-righteous beliefs that she is, and will continue to be ‘a legend in her own mind’ Oh, but the way, the new ‘Common Sense Putney Poll’ just came out and has 69% say Hillary, if she doesn’t win her party’s closed and fixed primary in California, should be’ indicted’ before the Socialist/Democratic Convention!
HILLARY’S FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE !
Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State had, and still has a policy of pay-to-play, that is bad enough. It reinforces the impression that Mrs. Clinton is a tangle of corruption, dishonest and untrustworthy, and playing by rules that apply to her and her husband but not to others. That has happened time and again with the Clintons; it’s the pattern and habits of a lifetime. And there’s no indication it will change. The portrait of Mrs. Clinton is that of a hardened, brittle, unreflective, and self-justifying individual. Whatever problems she faces are always the result of others, often the “right-wing conspiracy” she has invented in her over-active imagination.
But that’s not the only complicating factor for Mrs. Clinton. The other is that she has badly damaged her ability to wage a culture war/”war on women” campaign against Republicans. Because whatever outlandish charge she makes against Republicans, they will sound positively enlightened compared to the repression of women and gays that occurs in nations (like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, et cetera) that have given millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. It looks for all the world as if those nations gave money to buy the silence of the Clintons–and their investment paid off.
Hillary’s new attacks via notes or teleprompter, and her assistants proclaiming that she’s confused is a lot scarier than anything she can accuse Trump of being. After checking out her past, and temper, I think you will agree that she is by far the one who is dangerous, and never ever have her finger on the button.
Don’t be fooled by Hillary Clinton’s attempt to rehabilitate
her term as Secretary of State ahead of the 2016 presidential election. From 2009 to 2013, Clinton embodied U.S.
foreign affairs even as President Obama’s avowed policy of self-effacement descended
into listless, desultory abdication. Notwithstanding
her recent critiques of Obama’s performance, Clinton’s failures as Secretary of
State helped bring war to Europe, an arms race to Asia, and inferno to the
Middle-East. The U.S. and its international standing are weaker for Clinton’s
tenure as Secretary of State.
Hillary Clinton’s speech on ISIS to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) showed clearly what to expect in a Clinton presidency: more of the same. In her speech, Clinton doubled down on the existing, failed U.S. approach in the Middle East, the one she pursued as Secretary of State.
The CIA-led policy in the Middle East works like this. If a regime is deemed to be unfriendly to the U.S., topple it. If a competitor like the Soviet Union or Russia has a foothold in the region, try to push it out. If this means arming violent insurgencies, including Sunni jihadists, and thereby creating mayhem: so be it. And if the result is terrorist blowback around the world by the forces created by the US, then double down on bombing and regime change.
When it comes to Hillary Clinton and her attack on Donald Trump’s early political misspeaks and novice understanding of what politics are all about, and by not speaking to the American people via a press conference for close to 6 months, just shows you how the ‘Paid to Report’ Media is protecting from the questions and answers that the American People want to hear. Throwing her soft ball questions is better than nothing, and by doing so, show America People why she is just a legend in her own mind, just like Obamas proclamations and self-praise for his non-existent pro American Legacy. The media should be all over her less than stellar performance actions from her past foreign policy hiccups and expose Hillary because they all know how she will continue down the road mirroring Obama’s feckless non existing foreign policy of do nothing rules of engagement that put our soldiers in danger and disrespecting our military and the Constitution. It's glaringly apparent that our relationship with Russia is in tatters, which she began by botching the translation of the word "reset" on a button she handed her Russian counterpart in 2009. They drank, ate, talked, and posed for now-infamous photos in which the pair “pushed” a kitschy, red, plastic button mislabeled with the Russian word for “overcharge” instead of “reset.” After giving Russia what it wanted on the Eastern European missile defense shield, Russia repaid us by continuing to help the despotic Syrian regime and cruelly banned American adoptions.
Since 2009, Russia has also violated missile and nuclear
test ban treaties, cracked down on domestic dissent, de facto criminalized
homosexuality and sent nuclear bombers on sorties off the U.S. mainland. In 2010 and 2011, Clinton was deeply involved
in the negotiations that culminated in the New START treaty and rewarded Russia
for armament cuts it was making already.
There new treaty provided no recognizable benefit to the U.S. other than
political cover for the Obama Administration to cut U.S. nuclear weapons
stockpiles.
Clinton has called the Russia Reset “brilliant.” It is a debacle.
As for China -- her last visit there was a disaster. She was met with unbridled hostility in Beijing, and the president's recent meetings also produced nothing. Meanwhile, China continues to amass more wealth and more geopolitical influence and power.
Recognizing the military incapacity implied by Obama and Clinton’s Potemkin Pivot, China has aggressively asserted specious territorial claims. Under China’s “Nine-Dash” policy it claims exclusive economic rights in approximately all of the South China Sea. The precise coordinates of the nine dashes bounding China’s claims are not public, but they decidedly exceed China’s legal boundaries and encroach on Japan’s, Vietnam’s and the Philippines’s internationally recognized rights.
In both the Russia Reset and the Asia Pivot, Obama and Clinton naively believed that they were uniquely able to woo or cajole Russia and China, even where administrations before them had failed. Instead, responding to signals that the U.S. lacks either the ability or fortitude to stand against them, Russia and China are both literally expanding, acquiring new territory at the expense of Western-oriented U.S. allies. Those allies and others similarly situated no longer assume the U.S. is capable of – or even interested in - meeting its foreign obligations, and are understandably looking for other means of protecting their own interests.
In the Middle East – Clinton now claims she opposed Obama’s decision to withdraw all troops from Iraq. Some insiders corroborate parts of her story, including James Jeffrey, who was Ambassador to Iraq at the time. However, Obama’s rationalization for the precipitate troop withdrawal was that there was no Status of Forces agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, and leaving troops on the ground without such an agreement created legalistic dangers to U.S. troops to go along with the kinetic ones. While Clinton has blamed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for failing to reach an SFA, it was her job as Secretary of State to negotiate an agreement and she failed to do so.
Despite all the promise of the Clinton magic, the Secretary
of State came up empty, initially offending the Israelis with our shabby
treatment of Netanyahu, and then not taking any lead role in getting the
parties together. In Iran -- zero progress in halting Iran's nuclear program.
In Egypt -- we turned our back on a longtime ally Hosni Mubarak and gained a
new volatile player -- Mohammed Morsi -- who lasted all of 12 months before
being ousted in a coup that we won't call a coup.
As for the Arab Spring, Mrs. Clinton was quick to praise its promise without understanding how the coming volatility would adversely affect religious minorities and neighboring countries like our ally Jordan or Saudi Arabia.
And last but not least, there was Benghazi. Four dead Americans on her watch, yet the Secretary of State can't be bothered to be interviewed by the Accountability Review Board. And why was Ambassador Susan Rice sent out to tell the tall-tale regarding the non-existent protest of the video? Why didn't Mrs. Clinton herself make all those Sunday Show appearances? What difference does it make?
All of this should make a lot of difference to anyone interested in objectively assessing her tenure as Secretary of State. And let's hope whoever wins the Republican primary will be able to cite these failures and dismantle Hillary's record on foreign policy -- I know I certainly could.
HILLARY'S GUNRUNNING TO LIBYAN REBELS!
In 2011 Hillary Clinton’s State Department was orchestrating its own gunrunning operation to the Libyan rebels – and that arms dealer Marc Turi has been set up to take the fall for these “illicit arms deal.”
“The Justice Department has charged Turi with lying on an export-license application, alleging he hid his intent to ship weapons and ammunition to Libya in direct violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 170,”
“Marc Turi was set up and framed for something he didn’t do, while others, who actually did collaborate with Qatar and the UAE to deliver the weapons under U.S. and NATO protection and supervision, are not only not prosecuted like Marc Turi, they’re not even mentioned,”
‘key point is that Marc Turi, despite receiving written approval from the U.S. government to broker weapons to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, never actually went through [with] any weapons purchases or shipments to Qatar, to the UAE or to Libya
“Even more disturbingly, the U.S. was fully aware of and
facilitating the delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-dominated rebel militias
throughout the 2011 rebellion. The jihadist agenda of AQIM, the Libyan Islamic
Fighting Group (LIFG), and other Islamic terror groups represented among the
rebel forces was well known to U.S. officials responsible for Libya policy.”
In fact, “The rebels made no secret of their al-Qaida affiliation, openly flying and speaking in front of the black flag of Islamic jihad …” states the report.
When Hillary Clinton’s Libya-related emails were released, they exposed how Mrs. Clinton was interested in arming the rebels before they were “formally recognized by the U.S. or United Nations,”
Turi had said the “weapons supplied to Libya were in the hands of the U.S. government and the State Department’s Bureau of Political and Military Affairs, headed by key Hillary Clinton aide Andrew Shapiro,” reports Corsi. “Shapiro was responsible to oversee the export control process at the State Department.”
Mrs. Clinton exchanged emails with the director of policy planning for the Department of State, Anne-Marie Slaughter, in the spring of 2011. On March 30, 2011, Slaughter counseled Hillary Clinton that she was “VERY dubious about arming the Libyan rebels.” When Hillary Clinton asked why, Slaughter argued that “sending more arms into a society generally … will result in more violence – against each other” and “adding even more weapons does not make sense.”
Yet Mrs. Clinton emailed her aide, Jake Sullivan, on April 8, 2011, that “FYI. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.”
Years after the intervention, Libya remains a broken state marred by ongoing violence.
It’s already been established that Mrs. Clinton failed to turn over all of her work-related emails, allowed sensitive and classified material on her private email server and lied about both. Yet we are asked to believe that the more than 30,000 emails she had deleted and wiped from her server were all personal.
It’s clear that even her allies in the media are getting
nervous about where all of this is headed, since she is the presumed Democratic
Party standard bearer. The question is, will she ever be held accountable and
judged by the same standards as others who have “mishandled” classified
information? And what about her role in the Libyan and Benghazi scandals? It is
looking more and more like the only accountability may come from the American
voters.
Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS
Did the US Train ISIS Rebels to Fight Against Assad in Syria?
Allegations are mounting that the US trained Syrian rebels to fight against Assad only to see them later join ISIS and turn against the US-backed Iraqi Army.
A US-led training program in Jordan aimed at strengthening the Syrian opposition against Assad, which some have alleged might have equipped ISIS fighters with the tactics they are currently using against the US-trained Iraqi Army.
Iraq has fallen into total disarray, with a rebel group called ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, having conquered broad sections of the nation, along with a significant amount of territory in neighboring Syria. Though the Iraqi military claims to have ISIS contained, clashes are currently taking place within 140 miles of Baghdad. The US is sending ground troops back to Iraq, and officials representing the government of the war-torn nation have asked the US to provide air support against ISIS.
However, is it possible that the very rebels fighting against the US-backed government in Iraq were trained by American forces in an effort to strengthen the Free Syrian Army’s rebellion against Assad in Syria? Back in March of 2013, Reuters reported that the German Magazine Der Spiegel published an account by organizers of the Syrian rebellion claiming that US trainers, some wearing uniforms, were seen providing anti-tank training in Jordan to anti-Assad forces. Though the article mentioned that the training program was meant to exclude radicals that might turn against locals in Jordan, it is challenging to run background checks on everyone who joins a rebel group. Also, individuals who seemed ideologically moderate at one time could later on join a group like ISIS, especially considering its escalating momentum.
In January of 2014, a rift formed between members of the
Syrian rebellion and ISIS, largely over tactics. However, ISIS has been
successful in its military campaign against the Iraqi government, and this has
led its ranks to grow. It’s difficult to know whether the rebels allegedly
trained by the US in Jordan have since joined ISIS, but The Washington Post is
reporting that ISIS just released a new propaganda video touting its
American-style military tactics. The video not only shows a capable military
force with mature training, but it also contains footage of rebel fighters
using an anti-tank guided missile
It is tough to conclusively prove whether or not ISIS fighters were the individuals being trained by the US in Jordan. However, the group’s beginnings lie in the Syrian rebellion, and its military tactics look distinctly American. The latest ISIS propaganda video even demonstrates sophisticated anti-tank tactics, which were the focus of the alleged 2013 training session in Jordan. The division between other Syrian rebel groups and ISIS didn’t grow until January of 2014, several months after Der Spiegel‘s report. The Guardian also corroborated Der Spiegel‘s assertions, noting that special operators from the US, UK, and France were working together in Jordan to strengthen the Syrian opposition and that anti-aircraft missiles, like those seen in ISIS’ new propaganda video, were being funneled over the border from Turkey to Syrian fighters. An Associated Press article referenced by CBS News also noted the existence of the training program.
At this point, not enough clear evidence exists to confirm or deny the rumors that the US might have inadvertently provided ISIS with the training to defeat US-trained forces in Iraq. However, this would not be the first time American tactics and weapons have been found on both sides of a conflict. Also, ISIS’ latest propaganda video demonstrates a tactically mature force using anti-tank weapons, which was the specific focus of the alleged training session in Jordan. When the fog of war clears, it is entirely possible that history will reflect that the US inadvertently armed and trained the very opposition group that would later undo all of its efforts to strengthen the government in Iraq.
Clinton wants to be President of the United States and
appears intent on claiming her stint as Secretary of State as a
qualification. And the U.S. deserves a
successful president and foreign policy apparatus. That means understanding the cascading
repercussions of seemingly isolated decisions; soberly assesses foreign
counterparts’ good or bad intentions; quickly putting unfolding events into
broader context and answering difficult questions correctly the first time even
when the facts and circumstances are murky.
Like any other assignment, good foreign policy must ultimately be judged
by the results. As Clinton indulges
hindsight revisionism at Obama’s expense, it is fair to ask why she didn’t live
up to minimum expectations.
No, Secretary Clinton is responsible for four years of U.S.
backsliding on the world stage. It was
her job to observe and interpret foreign events, advise the President, and
formulate and execute policy to benefit the U.S. and its allies and confound
U.S. enemies. It does not matter which
component of her responsibilities she failed; the record is clear that U.S.
foreign policy collapsed on Clinton’s watch and the world is a far more
dangerous and far less free place as a result.
I’m have ‘FOX and FIENDS’ on in the background (6/08, 2016, 5:43AM), and they just announced another poll number about how even if Hillary is indicted that 50% say she should still be able to run for President of the United States. No name for the poll was given, but another obvious ploy to persuade the American People to be numb to the laws of the land and try to legitimize Hillary’s ‘holier than thou’ self-righteous beliefs that she is, and will continue to be ‘a legend in her own mind’ Oh, but the way, the new ‘Common Sense Putney Poll’ just came out and has 69% say Hillary, if she doesn’t win her party’s closed and fixed primary in California, should be’ indicted’ before the Socialist/Democratic Convention!
Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State had, and still has a policy of pay-to-play, that is bad enough. It reinforces the impression that Mrs. Clinton is a tangle of corruption, dishonest and untrustworthy, and playing by rules that apply to her and her husband but not to others. That has happened time and again with the Clintons; it’s the pattern and habits of a lifetime. And there’s no indication it will change. The portrait of Mrs. Clinton is that of a hardened, brittle, unreflective, and self-justifying individual. Whatever problems she faces are always the result of others, often the “right-wing conspiracy” she has invented in her over-active imagination.
But that’s not the only complicating factor for Mrs. Clinton. The other is that she has badly damaged her ability to wage a culture war/”war on women” campaign against Republicans. Because whatever outlandish charge she makes against Republicans, they will sound positively enlightened compared to the repression of women and gays that occurs in nations (like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, et cetera) that have given millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. It looks for all the world as if those nations gave money to buy the silence of the Clintons–and their investment paid off.
Hillary’s new attacks via notes or teleprompter, and her assistants proclaiming that she’s confused is a lot scarier than anything she can accuse Trump of being. After checking out her past, and temper, I think you will agree that she is by far the one who is dangerous, and never ever have her finger on the button.
Hillary Clinton’s speech on ISIS to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) showed clearly what to expect in a Clinton presidency: more of the same. In her speech, Clinton doubled down on the existing, failed U.S. approach in the Middle East, the one she pursued as Secretary of State.
The CIA-led policy in the Middle East works like this. If a regime is deemed to be unfriendly to the U.S., topple it. If a competitor like the Soviet Union or Russia has a foothold in the region, try to push it out. If this means arming violent insurgencies, including Sunni jihadists, and thereby creating mayhem: so be it. And if the result is terrorist blowback around the world by the forces created by the US, then double down on bombing and regime change.
When it comes to Hillary Clinton and her attack on Donald Trump’s early political misspeaks and novice understanding of what politics are all about, and by not speaking to the American people via a press conference for close to 6 months, just shows you how the ‘Paid to Report’ Media is protecting from the questions and answers that the American People want to hear. Throwing her soft ball questions is better than nothing, and by doing so, show America People why she is just a legend in her own mind, just like Obamas proclamations and self-praise for his non-existent pro American Legacy. The media should be all over her less than stellar performance actions from her past foreign policy hiccups and expose Hillary because they all know how she will continue down the road mirroring Obama’s feckless non existing foreign policy of do nothing rules of engagement that put our soldiers in danger and disrespecting our military and the Constitution. It's glaringly apparent that our relationship with Russia is in tatters, which she began by botching the translation of the word "reset" on a button she handed her Russian counterpart in 2009. They drank, ate, talked, and posed for now-infamous photos in which the pair “pushed” a kitschy, red, plastic button mislabeled with the Russian word for “overcharge” instead of “reset.” After giving Russia what it wanted on the Eastern European missile defense shield, Russia repaid us by continuing to help the despotic Syrian regime and cruelly banned American adoptions.
Clinton has called the Russia Reset “brilliant.” It is a debacle.
As for China -- her last visit there was a disaster. She was met with unbridled hostility in Beijing, and the president's recent meetings also produced nothing. Meanwhile, China continues to amass more wealth and more geopolitical influence and power.
Recognizing the military incapacity implied by Obama and Clinton’s Potemkin Pivot, China has aggressively asserted specious territorial claims. Under China’s “Nine-Dash” policy it claims exclusive economic rights in approximately all of the South China Sea. The precise coordinates of the nine dashes bounding China’s claims are not public, but they decidedly exceed China’s legal boundaries and encroach on Japan’s, Vietnam’s and the Philippines’s internationally recognized rights.
In both the Russia Reset and the Asia Pivot, Obama and Clinton naively believed that they were uniquely able to woo or cajole Russia and China, even where administrations before them had failed. Instead, responding to signals that the U.S. lacks either the ability or fortitude to stand against them, Russia and China are both literally expanding, acquiring new territory at the expense of Western-oriented U.S. allies. Those allies and others similarly situated no longer assume the U.S. is capable of – or even interested in - meeting its foreign obligations, and are understandably looking for other means of protecting their own interests.
In the Middle East – Clinton now claims she opposed Obama’s decision to withdraw all troops from Iraq. Some insiders corroborate parts of her story, including James Jeffrey, who was Ambassador to Iraq at the time. However, Obama’s rationalization for the precipitate troop withdrawal was that there was no Status of Forces agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, and leaving troops on the ground without such an agreement created legalistic dangers to U.S. troops to go along with the kinetic ones. While Clinton has blamed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for failing to reach an SFA, it was her job as Secretary of State to negotiate an agreement and she failed to do so.
As for the Arab Spring, Mrs. Clinton was quick to praise its promise without understanding how the coming volatility would adversely affect religious minorities and neighboring countries like our ally Jordan or Saudi Arabia.
And last but not least, there was Benghazi. Four dead Americans on her watch, yet the Secretary of State can't be bothered to be interviewed by the Accountability Review Board. And why was Ambassador Susan Rice sent out to tell the tall-tale regarding the non-existent protest of the video? Why didn't Mrs. Clinton herself make all those Sunday Show appearances? What difference does it make?
All of this should make a lot of difference to anyone interested in objectively assessing her tenure as Secretary of State. And let's hope whoever wins the Republican primary will be able to cite these failures and dismantle Hillary's record on foreign policy -- I know I certainly could.
HILLARY'S GUNRUNNING TO LIBYAN REBELS!
In 2011 Hillary Clinton’s State Department was orchestrating its own gunrunning operation to the Libyan rebels – and that arms dealer Marc Turi has been set up to take the fall for these “illicit arms deal.”
“The Justice Department has charged Turi with lying on an export-license application, alleging he hid his intent to ship weapons and ammunition to Libya in direct violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 170,”
“Marc Turi was set up and framed for something he didn’t do, while others, who actually did collaborate with Qatar and the UAE to deliver the weapons under U.S. and NATO protection and supervision, are not only not prosecuted like Marc Turi, they’re not even mentioned,”
‘key point is that Marc Turi, despite receiving written approval from the U.S. government to broker weapons to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, never actually went through [with] any weapons purchases or shipments to Qatar, to the UAE or to Libya
In fact, “The rebels made no secret of their al-Qaida affiliation, openly flying and speaking in front of the black flag of Islamic jihad …” states the report.
When Hillary Clinton’s Libya-related emails were released, they exposed how Mrs. Clinton was interested in arming the rebels before they were “formally recognized by the U.S. or United Nations,”
Turi had said the “weapons supplied to Libya were in the hands of the U.S. government and the State Department’s Bureau of Political and Military Affairs, headed by key Hillary Clinton aide Andrew Shapiro,” reports Corsi. “Shapiro was responsible to oversee the export control process at the State Department.”
Mrs. Clinton exchanged emails with the director of policy planning for the Department of State, Anne-Marie Slaughter, in the spring of 2011. On March 30, 2011, Slaughter counseled Hillary Clinton that she was “VERY dubious about arming the Libyan rebels.” When Hillary Clinton asked why, Slaughter argued that “sending more arms into a society generally … will result in more violence – against each other” and “adding even more weapons does not make sense.”
Yet Mrs. Clinton emailed her aide, Jake Sullivan, on April 8, 2011, that “FYI. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.”
Years after the intervention, Libya remains a broken state marred by ongoing violence.
It’s already been established that Mrs. Clinton failed to turn over all of her work-related emails, allowed sensitive and classified material on her private email server and lied about both. Yet we are asked to believe that the more than 30,000 emails she had deleted and wiped from her server were all personal.
Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS
Did the US Train ISIS Rebels to Fight Against Assad in Syria?
Allegations are mounting that the US trained Syrian rebels to fight against Assad only to see them later join ISIS and turn against the US-backed Iraqi Army.
A US-led training program in Jordan aimed at strengthening the Syrian opposition against Assad, which some have alleged might have equipped ISIS fighters with the tactics they are currently using against the US-trained Iraqi Army.
Iraq has fallen into total disarray, with a rebel group called ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, having conquered broad sections of the nation, along with a significant amount of territory in neighboring Syria. Though the Iraqi military claims to have ISIS contained, clashes are currently taking place within 140 miles of Baghdad. The US is sending ground troops back to Iraq, and officials representing the government of the war-torn nation have asked the US to provide air support against ISIS.
However, is it possible that the very rebels fighting against the US-backed government in Iraq were trained by American forces in an effort to strengthen the Free Syrian Army’s rebellion against Assad in Syria? Back in March of 2013, Reuters reported that the German Magazine Der Spiegel published an account by organizers of the Syrian rebellion claiming that US trainers, some wearing uniforms, were seen providing anti-tank training in Jordan to anti-Assad forces. Though the article mentioned that the training program was meant to exclude radicals that might turn against locals in Jordan, it is challenging to run background checks on everyone who joins a rebel group. Also, individuals who seemed ideologically moderate at one time could later on join a group like ISIS, especially considering its escalating momentum.
It is tough to conclusively prove whether or not ISIS fighters were the individuals being trained by the US in Jordan. However, the group’s beginnings lie in the Syrian rebellion, and its military tactics look distinctly American. The latest ISIS propaganda video even demonstrates sophisticated anti-tank tactics, which were the focus of the alleged 2013 training session in Jordan. The division between other Syrian rebel groups and ISIS didn’t grow until January of 2014, several months after Der Spiegel‘s report. The Guardian also corroborated Der Spiegel‘s assertions, noting that special operators from the US, UK, and France were working together in Jordan to strengthen the Syrian opposition and that anti-aircraft missiles, like those seen in ISIS’ new propaganda video, were being funneled over the border from Turkey to Syrian fighters. An Associated Press article referenced by CBS News also noted the existence of the training program.
At this point, not enough clear evidence exists to confirm or deny the rumors that the US might have inadvertently provided ISIS with the training to defeat US-trained forces in Iraq. However, this would not be the first time American tactics and weapons have been found on both sides of a conflict. Also, ISIS’ latest propaganda video demonstrates a tactically mature force using anti-tank weapons, which was the specific focus of the alleged training session in Jordan. When the fog of war clears, it is entirely possible that history will reflect that the US inadvertently armed and trained the very opposition group that would later undo all of its efforts to strengthen the government in Iraq.
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