{"id":392680,"date":"2019-01-13T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-clinton-memo-that-killed\/"},"modified":"2019-01-13T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:23:50","slug":"a-clinton-memo-that-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-clinton-memo-that-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clinton Memo That Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A<\/strong>\u00a0Hillary Clinton memo that Wikileaks made public in 2016 has not gotten the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n

It takes us back to 2012 and the early phase of the Syrian war.<\/p>\n

At that point, it was largely an internal affair, although\u00a0Saudi arms shipments<\/a>\u00a0were playing a greater and greater role in bolstering rebel forces.\u00a0 But once the Obama administration decided in favor of intervention, the conflict was quickly internationalized as thousands of holy warriors flooded in from as far away as western China.<\/p>\n

The 1,200-word memo by then-Secretary of State Clinton begins with the subject of Iran, an important patron of Syria.<\/p>\n

She dismisses any notion that nuclear talks will stop Iran \u201cfrom improving the crucial part of any nuclear weapons program\u2014the capability to enrich uranium.\u201d\u00a0 If it does get the bomb, it goes on, Israel will suffer a strategic setback since it will no longer be able to \u201crespond to provocations with conventional military strikes on Syria and Lebanon, as it can today.\u201d\u00a0Denied the ability to bomb at will, Israel might leave off secondary targets and strike at the main enemy instead.
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Consequently, Clinton argues that the U.S. should topple the Assad regime so as to weaken Iran and allay the fears of Israel, which has long regarded the Islamic republic as its primary enemy. \u00a0As the memo puts it:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBringing down Assad would not only be a massive boon to Israel\u2019s security, it would also ease Israel\u2019s understandable fear of losing its nuclear monopoly.\u00a0 Then, Israel and the United States might be able to develop a common view of when the Iranian program is so dangerous that military action could be…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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A\u00a0Hillary Clinton memo that Wikileaks made public in 2016 has not gotten the attention it deserves. It takes us back to 2012 and the early phase of the Syrian war. At that point, it was largely an internal affair, although\u00a0Saudi arms shipments\u00a0were playing a greater and greater role in bolstering rebel forces.\u00a0 But once the […]<\/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-392680","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\/392680","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=392680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}