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Hillary's Arab Spring Fail

<p>Hillary Clinton has been wrong about everything&period; That statement might seem partisan in nature&comma; but a thorough review of all decisions reveals a woman who has virtually zero foresight&period; On the topic of the Arab Spring&comma; Clinton continuously voiced her praise for the coinciding revolutions that have plunged the Middle East region into irreversible turmoil&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2011&comma; Hillary Clinton strolled through Tahrir Square&comma; the site of the Egyptian protests that removed American ally Hosni Mubarek from office&period; &ldquo&semi;To see where this revolution happened&comma; and all that it has meant to the world&comma; is extraordinary for me&comma;&rdquo&semi; the gushing Secretary said to a crowd of journalists&period;&&num;8221&semi; For the United States&comma; supporting democratic transitions is not a matter of idealism&period; It is a strategic necessity&period;&&num;8221&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Within the year&comma; during Clinton&rsquo&semi;s second visit&comma; protesters pelted her motorcade with tomatoes and shoes&comma; all the while chanting&colon; &ldquo&semi;Monica&comma; Monica&comma; Monica&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;The Monica chant&comma; of course&comma; is in reference to Bill Clinton&rsquo&semi;s extramarital affair with a White House Intern&period; Within a year of that date&comma; the first democratically elected president Mohammad Morsi was overthrown by the military in July 2013 following mass protests&period; Abdul Fattah al-Sisi&comma; the former military chief&comma; is now president of Egypt&semi; Morsi has been sentenced to death&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Pew research&comma; 84 percent of Egyptians believe in the death penalty for people who leave Islam&period; Where did those democracy loving protesters Clinton was so fond of go&quest; Its as if they never existed at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hillary&rsquo&semi;s statements regarding Libya reflected the same misguided policy plans that she had expressed in Egypt&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;On behalf of the American people and government&comma; our congratulations&comma; our best wishes to the Libyan people for what&comma; through great hardship&comma; sacrifice and courage&comma; they have achieved in opening the door to a more promising future for Libya after 42 years of the Gadhafi dictatorship&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Clinton said to Libyan journalists&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The death of Gadhafi was the first sign Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s idea of what was going on was flaud&period; The &&num;8221&semi; democracy craving &&num;8221&semi; rebels slowly cut off parts of their former leader and sodamized him with sticks&comma; all while manically chanting &&num;8220&semi;Allahu Akbar&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A few years after that visit&comma; four Americans are dead&comma; including Ambassador Chris Stevens&comma; and Libya is a crumbling ruin&period; The flag of al Qaeda now flows freely in many cities&period; The country now serves as one of the cheif recruting grounds for the Islamic State&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What an inept Obama&nbsp&semi;administration called a &&num;8220&semi;success story&&num;8221&semi; was not immune to the Hillary curse&period; Four years after Hillary&rsquo&semi;s visit to Yemen&comma; the country is falling into a sectarian ruin&period; As of 2015&comma; President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi has fled from his palace to seek solace in an unknown location&period; Most government officials were chased out of the country&comma; their property seized and destroyed by rebels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hillary&&num;8217&semi;s secretary of state tenure was a literal tour of countries en route to destruction&comma; and in each example Hilary viewed them as pro-democracy&comma;pro-human rights&nbsp&semi;countries on the rise&period; Her initial evaluation of every country was fatally incorrect&period; Not even mentioning any of her multiple scandals&comma; being wrong about every country she encountered&nbsp&semi;should disqualify her from being a serious candidate&period; We need a president who isn&&num;8217&semi;t too clouded by ideology to see what is actually happening&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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