Absolutely correct - while Mr. Cole is correct that Bush was most directly responsible for creating the conditions under which ISIS would be born (along with a vote from Hillary Clinton) in Iraq, he omits the fact that Obama (again, along with Clinton as his then Secretary of State) is responsible for its spread to at least Libya by destroying that government and replacing it with a vacuum.
In fact Mr. Cole, whose insights i generally value and who certainly knows more about the Mideast/North Africa than I do, made an extremely bad call by arguing for the Libya intervention, a fact that he omits here.
After two such major failures in judgment, and with "restoring ties" to Israel seemingly her top foreign policy priority, there is no evidence to suggest a Clinton White House would have a more intelligent Mid East policy than existed under Bush.
Absolutely correct - while Mr. Cole is correct that Bush was most directly responsible for creating the conditions under which ISIS would be born (along with a vote from Hillary Clinton) in Iraq, he omits the fact that Obama (again, along with Clinton as his then Secretary of State) is responsible for its spread to at least Libya by destroying that government and replacing it with a vacuum.
In fact Mr. Cole, whose insights i generally value and who certainly knows more about the Mideast/North Africa than I do, made an extremely bad call by arguing for the Libya intervention, a fact that he omits here.
After two such major failures in judgment, and with "restoring ties" to Israel seemingly her top foreign policy priority, there is no evidence to suggest a Clinton White House would have a more intelligent Mid East policy than existed under Bush.