Jennifer Granholm: Many offer tweet-sized prescriptions for the complex Syrian crisis. Not HRC....

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Informative. Hillary knows what the global problems are--nothing simple about her speech.


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Jennifer Granholm ?@JenGranholm 8h8 hours ago

Many offer tweet-sized prescriptions for the complex Syrian crisis. Not HRC. I agree, again, with David Brooks: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/opinion/hillary-clinton-takes-on-isis.html?_r=1 …



Hillary Clinton Takes On ISIS

NOV. 20, 2015



This week we had a chance to watch Hillary Clinton respond in real time to a complex foreign policy challenge. On Thursday, six days after the Paris attacks, she gave a comprehensive antiterrorism speech at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The speech was very impressive. While other candidates are content to issue vague calls to get tough on terror, Clinton offered a multilayered but coherent framework, not only dealing with ISIS but also putting that threat within the crosscutting conflicts that are inflaming the Middle East.

For example, instead of just issuing a generic call to get tough on the terrorists, she pointed to the reality that ISIS will be toppled only if there is an uprising by fellow Sunnis. There has to be a Sunni Awakening against ISIS in 2016, like the Sunni Awakening that toppled Al Qaeda in Iraq starting in 2007.


That will not happen while President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is spreading mayhem, terror and genocide. As long as they find themselves in the grips of a horrific civil war, even sensible Sunnis will feel that they need ISIS as a counterpoint to the butchery coming out of Damascus.

Clinton therefore gestured to the reality that you can’t really deal with ISIS unless you are also willing to deal with Assad. Assad is not some secondary threat who we can deal with after we’ve tamed the ISIS monster. Assad created the failed state and the power vacuum that ISIS was able to fill. Assad serves as chief recruiter for ISIS every time he drops a barrel bomb on a school or a market. Assad, as Clinton pointed out, has murdered even more Syrians than ISIS has.

[Thinkingabout]

1. The ISIS problem requires much more than dumb statements by Trumo and Carson.

The ISIS accomplished just what they wanted in giving fake Syrian passports to the terrorists in Paris, they do not want the refugees to be welcomed by any country, unfortunately the GOP candidates gobbled it up and then spit out dumb statements.
It makes it more imperative we elect a knowledge president such as Hillary Clinton who did not GE fooled by ISIS terrorists.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Not our gal, the former Secretary of State! She's got smarts and knows how to use them.

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3. "It would be a cruel irony indeed if ISIS can force families from their homes & then also prevent th

The Briefing ?@TheBriefing2016 Nov 19

ISIS has no religious test for its brutality. @HillaryClinton points out that we shouldn't have one for our compassion. -LMR
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Roger Simon ?@politicoroger Nov 19

Hillary gives one of her best speeches ever on world terror. So presidential, they practically played "Hail to the Chief."
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Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton Nov 19

"It would be a cruel irony indeed if ISIS can force families from their homes & then also prevent them from ever finding new ones." —Hillary
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President Obama ?@POTUS Nov 18

Slamming the door in the face of refugees would betray our deepest values. That's not who we are. And it's not what we're going to do.
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Kevin Baron ?@DefenseBaron Nov 19

You guys listening to the Hillary speech? Most comprehensive and detailed Mideast/Isis plans I've heard from any US leader so far, of late
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