Analysis: Hillary Clinton and the Syrian bloodbath

If Clinton gets into the WH we can expect a huge increase in the death and destruction worldwide we have come to expect from the US. Obama had a grain of conscience Clinton has none.

OffGuardian

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Hillary Clinton speaks to the press following the Friends of Syria conference in Tunis, February 2012. Photograph: Jason Reed/AFP/Getty Images

Jeffrey Sachs writes in The Huffington Post:

[…] Clinton has been much more than a bit player in the Syrian crisis. Her diplomat Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi was killed as he was running a CIA operation to ship Libyan heavy weapons to Syria. Clinton herself took the lead role in organizing the so-called “Friends of Syria” to back the CIA-led insurgency.

The U.S. policy was a massive, horrific failure. Assad did not go, and was not defeated. Russia came to his support. Iran came to his support. The mercenaries sent in to overthrow him were themselves radical jihadists with their own agendas. The chaos opened the way for the Islamic State, building on disaffected Iraqi Army leaders (deposed by the US in 2003), on captured U.S. weaponry, and…

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