NEWSMAX: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has put the largest amount of space yet between herself and a rapidly more-unpopular President Barack Obama, calling his refusal to “build up a credible fighting force” in Syria to battle the Assad regime a “failure” that led to jihadists such as the Islamic State (ISIS) moving in.
“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad — there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle — the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said in an extensive interview with The Atlantic’s national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg.
The Clinton interview was conducted last week before the president ordered targeted airstrikes and humanitarian deliveries in Iraq, but she still used her toughest language yet to distance herself from Obama’s string of decisions concerning Syria and Iraq… (more)
