{"id":187027,"date":"2015-09-29T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-clintons-wicked-syrian-choice\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T18:35:29","slug":"hillary-clintons-wicked-syrian-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hillary-clintons-wicked-syrian-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton\u2019s \u2018Wicked\u2019 Syrian Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton\u00a0bought into the neocon\/liberal-hawk agenda which\u00a0spread the chaos of Iraq across Libya, Syria and now into Europe. How Clinton approached those challenges suggests that she would head\u00a0down the same \u201cregime change\u201d path as\u00a0President,\u00a0Rick Sterling explains.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15998\"><\/span>By Rick Sterling<\/p>\n<p>Key leaders from around the world are present at the United Nations this week to discuss critical issues; one of the most pressing is Syria. How did we get to this point with half the Syrian population (almost 12 million) displaced and under-populated but huge areas of Syria now controlled by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Al Qaeda (Nusra) and other fanatical fundamentalist groups?<\/p>\n<p>Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2014 book <em>Hard Choices<\/em> reveals important information about the first years of the Syrian conflict and how we got where we are today. Clinton\u2019s account conveys the perception, priorities and bias at the top level of the Obama administration. The book describes policy differences within the administration and the common assumptions and goals which have led to the current disastrous situation.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s chapter on Syria, entitled \u201cSyria: A Wicked Problem,\u201d documents how the U.S. and regional allies tried to overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. The \u201cwicked problem\u201d is that there was no easy way. Attack directly? Train a proxy army? Supply the armed opposition with weapons secretly or publicly? Create a \u201cNo Fly Zone\u201d? Bomb Damascus? These are the question considered.<\/p>\n<p>The dominance of the neoconservative mentality in Washington and throughout the Western media is demonstrated by the fact that foreign demands that \u201cAssad must go\u201d are rarely questioned despite the fact it\u2019s in clear violation of international law and the UN Charter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/09\/29\/hillary-clintons-wicked-syrian-choice\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton\u00a0bought into the neocon\/liberal-hawk agenda which\u00a0spread the chaos of Iraq across Libya, Syria and now into Europe. How Clinton approached those challenges suggests that she would head\u00a0down the same \u201cregime change\u201d path as\u00a0President,\u00a0Rick Sterling explains. By Rick Sterling Key leaders from around the world are present at the United Nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}