Yesterday conservative columnist David Brooks wrote about Hillary Clinton’s speech on ISIS to the Council on Foreign Relations. She delivered the speech on Thursday, November 19. Brooks pointed out that this was not some blustery and vague call for getting tough on terrorists, but a detailed analysis with real policy recommendations.
I will quote one paragraph of Brooks’s column: Dealing with both Assad and ISIS simultaneously throws you into the bitter and complex jockeying between Sunni and Shiite, between Iran and Saudi Arabia. It puts pressure on your Ukraine policy (Vladimir Putin will want concessions as a price for backing off his aggression in the Middle East). Everything is connected. Which is why the presidency is for grownups, not rank outsiders.
Hillary Clinton is a grownup. Her opponents on the Republican could not put together a coherent speech on the Middle East, don’t know the issues, don’t understand the dynamics. What they are good at is slogans, threats, and bombast.
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