Hillary Clinton promised us a speech on what she’d do to destroy ISIS, but what she gave us was a speech detailing how she would destroy Syria — and drag the US down the road to another unwinnable war. What she essentially proposes is that we fight a three-sided battle — against ISIS, on the one hand, and against Bashar
al-Assad, Russia, and Iran on the other.
She elaborated on her “no-fly zone” scheme, saying she wanted to set it up only in the north. This means not only that the US air force will be protecting the “moderate” Syrian rebels — a coalition of US-supported head-choppers and al-Nusra, the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda — but also preventing Russian warplanes from flying over
the huge swath of territory in the north controlled by the Islamic State — including Raqqa, their capital. So how does she intend to keep Putin out of the skies over Raqqa — by shooting down Russian planes, Chris Christie-style?
Signaling that her main focus is still overthrowing Assad, rather than fighting
ISIS, Clinton averred that Putin is “making things somewhat worse.” Yet the
Russians have been pulverizing
ISIS, pushing them back on every front — and there is evidence that the
terrorists’ increasing desperation in the face of this merciless onslaught provoked
the Paris attacks. The snake lashes out one more time before it is decapitated.
Francois Hollande seems to understand
the importance of enlisting Russia in the anti-ISIS coalition, but Hillary is
intransigent on the subject of Assad, thus ruling out any real cooperation with
Moscow.
Incredibly, Clinton called for another “Arab Awakening,” signaling that under
her reign the US will continue to play the “Sunni card,” arming the “moderate”
Islamist rebels, and even encouraging insurrection among Iraqi Sunnis and Kurdish
ultra-nationalists. “Baghdad needs to accept, even embrace, arming Sunni and
Kurdish forces in the war against ISIS,” she declared. “But if Baghdad won’t
do that, the coalition should do so directly.”