One statement I will make definitively and that is that Hillary has not in this interview made any of the judgmental statements about the current administration that are being attributed to her by the viral 'spin-off' articles this interview has spawned. This epidemiology is nothing new and is so common that I simply have given up arguing with the people who write those shallow articles and who clearly have poor reading comprehension skills.
So here is the interview, preceded by Goldberg's take on her words.
Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS
The former secretary of state, and probable candidate for president, outlines her foreign-policy doctrine. She says this about President Obama's: "Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle."
JG: You go out of your way in Hard Choices to praise Robert Ford, who recently quit as U.S. ambassador to Syria, as an excellent diplomat. Ford quit in protest and has recently written strongly about what he sees as the inadequacies of Obama administration policy. Do you agree with Ford that we are at fault for not doing enough to build up a credible Syrian opposition when we could have?
HRC: I have the highest regard for Robert. I’m the one who convinced the administration to send an ambassador to Syria. You know, this is why I called the chapter on Syria “A Wicked Problem.” I can’t sit here today and say that if we had done what I recommended, and what Robert Ford recommended, that we’d be in a demonstrably different place.
Read more>>>>The exchange above demonstrates what I was talking about. One thing you will never catch Hillary Clinton doing is second-guessing in the subjunctive.
Secretary Clinton’s Interview With Jeff Goldberg of The Atlantic
May 10, 2011 by still4hill |
