Hillary Clinton Announces Her Plan on Defeating the Islamic State

[SillyAmerican]

Hillary Clinton's "expansive foreign-policy response" sounds a bit like something Bill O'Rielly has been saying for months now. So perhaps the subject of this thread should be changed to Hillary Clinton Finally Agrees With Bill O'Rielly...

Don't get me wrong, the response seems reasonable: by creating a "safe zone", in addition to beginning to push ISIS out of the area, perhaps we can alleviate the need to handle all these displaced refugees. It's time for our politicians to start listening to the military people whose job it is to implement solutions to problems like ISIS.

And yes, unfortunately unlike Mrs. Clinton, I believe a coalition of forces will be needed to begin to push ISIS back, and that coalition will have to include American military people on the ground.

[SillyAmerican]

It's not clear to me that Obama has decided one way or the other whether destroying IS is worth helping Assad.  But I can't blame him too much, because it doesn't seem clear to me from the public statements of Clinton or any of the other candidates from both parties whether they've decided on that either!  We seem to be in a moment of strategic ambiguity about what our priorities are.

Agreed. It's unfortunate, but Assad is currently the key to the whole mess...