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Originally posted by seanoh
Hillary was one of New York's senators and served as Secretary of State before stepping down in 2012.
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So Hillary carpetbagged to New York to run for the senate to gain some political credibility. Why is this even considered impressive, it was her first political office and she only won because of her name.
She was a terrible Secretary of State, Many people will say leaves behind no major achievement but that's not true she left several, all of them bad for the United States.
Russia Reset
This was a total failure, we give up a missile shield in Poland and we get nothing in return. Today we see the results of the reset in the Ukraine and Crimea.
Libya
Qaddafi was a bad man we all know it but taking him out and leading from behind with no plan in place lead to chaos.
Benghazi
The warning signs were there for months and requests for more security were ignored. Those people should never have been there to begin with. The State Department screwed up. Who had the "buck stops here" label on them at the State Department? Hillary. I am not in to cover ups or conspiracy theories this simple truth is she dropped the ball.
Iraq
Everyone in the Pentagon was telling Hillary and Obama to leave leave a residual force behind or risk what we are seeing today. Obama said we had no Status of Forces Agreement to leave troops behind, which is true, but it was Hillary's job to negotiate with Nouri al-Maliki to reach an SFA and she failed to do so. This was in 2011 and the beginning of ISIS took root.
Syrian Civil War
Hillary did nothing to identify and help the fighters trying to topple Assad and in the vacuum ISIS started to rapidly move in to Syria.
Afghanistan
As our troops draw down the State Department set out to block the visas of 6000+ Afghan interpreters that were embedded with our troops. They will most likely be killed.
Honduras
Hillary Clintons Two Foreign-Policy Catastrophes
Democracy replaced with fascism thanks to the State Department. Without Hillary Clinton’s support for fascism, Honduras would still be a democratic republic in Central America. This is widely known outside the U.S.
I tried to keep it short there are a lot of political nuances regarding the Middle East that triggered these events, Nouri al-Maliki denying Sunnis access to the government after we left for example. Something that would not have happened if we stayed engaged. I can back up all these claims with much more detail but I think you can Google it as well.