Hillary Clinton Blames Syria Policy for Rise of Islamic State

From the Republican opposition research firm America Rising, we get this portion of Hillary Clinton’s interview on Univision:

“You know, ISIS is a phenomenon and ISIS came out of the terrible turmoil in Syria. I personally had advocated that we do more to help the rebels against Assad because I worried that terrorists would take and occupy territory, and that has come to pass, not only with ISIS but other Al-Qaeda affiliates and terrorist networks.” 

She is making the exact point many conservative critics of the Obama administration have made: His policy of inactivity allowed a civil war to claim the lives of more than 200,000 and give the Islamic State a territory in which to operate. A spokesman for Jeb Bush, who delivered an indictment of the Obama-Hillary Clinton foreign policy this week, tells Right Turn, “Hillary cannot run away from the foreign policy she enacted as Secretary of State. While trying to point the finger at President Obama she is just reinforcing the argument Jeb made at the Reagan library – that by pulling back Obama/Clinton allowed a void to be created that has been filled by radical Islamic terrorists.”

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Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies e-mails me that given the debacle in Syria it “should come as no surprise, then, that Hillary Clinton is distancing herself. Of course, she needs to pick and choose carefully where she dissents from a sitting president from her own party. but this one strikes me as a safe bet.”

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