Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Bloodbath - byJeffrey D. Sachs

Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Bloodbath - by Jeffrey D. Sachs  http://goo.gl/SuGsc9 Published February 14, 2016 by Common Dreams

(A Short Summary)

“In the Milwaukee debate, Hillary Clinton took pride in her role in a recent UN Security Council resolution on a Syrian ceasefire:”

But I would add this. You know, the Security Council finally got around to adopting a resolution. At the core of that resolution is an agreement I negotiated in June of 2012 in Geneva, which set forth a cease-fire and moving toward a political resolution, trying to bring the parties at stake in Syria together.

“This is the kind of compulsive misrepresentation that makes Clinton unfit to be President.”

“Clinton's role in Syria has been to help instigate and prolong the Syrian bloodbath, not to bring it to a close.”

“In 2012, Clinton was the obstacle, not the solution, to a ceasefire being negotiated by UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan.”

“It was US intransigence - Clinton's intransigence - that led to the failure of Annan's peace efforts in the spring of 2012, a point well known among diplomats.”

“Despite Clinton's insinuation in the Milwaukee debate, there was (of course) no 2012 ceasefire, only escalating carnage.”

“Clinton bears heavy responsibility for that carnage, which has by now displaced more than 10 million Syrians and left more than 250,000 dead.”

“…the Syrian War is not mostly about Bashar al-Assad, or even about Syria itself. It is mostly a proxy war, about Iran”

“Clinton has been much more than a bit player in the Syrian crisis.”

“The U.S. policy was a massive, horrific failure. Assad did not go, and was not defeated. Russia came to his support. Iran came to his support.”

“The record of misery caused by covert CIA operations literally fills volumes at this point. What surprise, then, the Clinton acknowledges Henry Kissinger as a mentor and guide?”

“She [Hillary Clinton] has much to answer for regarding the disaster in Syria.”