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Hillary Was Against Arming the Syrian Rebels Before She Was for Arming Them

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On August 13, 2014 @ 10:28 am In The Point | 4 Comments

Hillary Clinton is a woman of strong views on many issues. If you don’t like her view on an issue, wait 5 minutes.

Hillary is against Israel and for Israel. She is for taking a hard line on Iran and against it. She is for and against arming the Syrian rebels.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, isn’t buying it. In an interview with me earlier this week, she used her sharpest language yet to describe the “failure” that resulted from the decision to keep the U.S. on the sidelines during the first phase of the Syrian uprising.

“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said.

This is Hillary Clinton now. Here’s Hillary Clinton back then.

“What are we going to arm them with and against what?” she said, when pressed in a CBS interview about why the Obama administration wasn’t giving the Syrian rebels weapons to help them in their fight against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. “You are not going to bring tanks over the borders of Turkey, Lebanaon and Jordan — that’s not going to happen. So maybe at the best you can smuggle in, you know, automatic weapons.”

“And to whom are you delivering them?” she continued. “We know that al-Qaida [leader Ayman al] Zawahiri is supporting the opposition in Syria. Are we supporting al-Qaida in Syria? Hamas is now supporting the opposition. Are we supporting Hamas in Syria?”

Hillary Clinton certainly has many views on arming the Syrian rebels. I’m glad she’s come around the importance of arming Al-Qaeda and Hamas.

I look forward to her other views such as…

1. We should only arm every third Syrian rebel

2. We should rename the Syrian rebels to the Montana National Guard and arm them

and the always popular

3. Who am I? What am I doing here on CBS? Am I having a dream at 3 AM in the morning?

 


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