Is Hillary's Description of Her Role In Negotiating A 2012 UN Ceasefire Resolution

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in Syria... At Variance With The Facts?

Clinton... "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."

As every knowledgeable observer understands, the Syrian War is not mostly about Bashar al-Assad, or even about Syria itself. It is mostly a proxy war, about Iran. And the bloodbath is doubly tragic and misguided for that reason.

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. SNIP

Jeffrey Sachs.. "Clinton's role in Syria has been to help instigate and prolong the Syrian bloodbath, not to bring it to a close."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-clinton-and-the-s_b_9231190.html?

EXPERIENCE vs. JUDGEMENT: This terrible situation which was managed for the United States by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is just one more example of this presidential candidate's much ballyhooed experience in Foreign Policy. A resume' point which has more than anything demonstrated that experience does not translate into making sound and objective judgements.

I would add that in this case, rather than working toward an overall solution that takes into account the history of the region, Hillary appears to have chosen (as the representative of U.S. interests by the way), rather to take the side of "naive" Israeli leaders who are as Professor Sachs so credibly notes, "ignorant of history."

My Assessment: Judgement is fundamental to the position of President, and Mrs. Clinton has not demonstrated an acumen for making the best decision on multiple occasions. She can only apologize so much. From Private email servers to a flawed regime change decision in Libya leading eventually to the Benghazi debacle, her criteria for these decisions can only be characterized as less than objective . An affirmative vote on the Iraq invasion and most recently her advocacy for a No Fly Zone over Syria where the ONLY planes other than ours were Russian, effectively represent bookends on an essentially contiguous string of disastrous decisions supported by poor judgements and a proven inability to foresee the consequences associated with her decisions.

Jeffrey D. Sachs http://unsdsn.org/about-us/people/jeffrey-sachs/

is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries. He has twice been named among Time Magazine‘s 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, “probably the most important economist in the world,” and by Time Magazine “the world’s best known economist.” A recent survey by The Economist ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three most influential living economists of the past decade.