President Barack Obama meets with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office shortly after she was confirmed and sworn in on Wednesday, January 21, 2009. (White House Photo/Pete Souza)
Washington Times: Conflicted Clinton stays quiet about Obama’s increasing military moves in Iraq
As President Obama plunged America deeper Wednesday into warfare in Iraq, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton ducked for cover rather than choose between the White House she served and her party’s anti-war wing.
The Clinton campaign refused to answer questions about the president’s decision to send more U.S. troops to Iraq, putting off the day when Mrs. Clinton must reconcile her close ties to Mr. Obama’s Iraq policy and the urgent need for a new strategy to combat the advancing Islamic State terrorist army.
As Mr. Obama’s secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton supported the move to end the Iraq War with a U.S. pullout in 2011. The decision created a power vacuum that helped give rise to the Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIL or ISIS.
WNU Editor: If she stood-up and made public her foreign policy/national security principles and where she stands on issues like the Middle East .... this would not be an issue. But in the way that she has positioned herself .... this is now an issue where she cannot win regardless of the position that she takes.
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