Hillary Clinton: We Must Bomb Syrian Air Fields

Hillary Clinton may not have meant it, but last week she fully endorsed Donald Trump’s Syrian airstrike before it even happened. In an interview published early Thursday morning, Clinton suggested that the administration’s lack of action against Bashar al-Assad was its biggest mistake.

“I think we should have been more willing to confront Assad,” Clinton said in the interview, conducted by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

“I really believe we should have and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them.”

Clinton noted that she had advocated for a no-fly zone in Syria after leaving government, something that Obama opposed.

Her remarks came two days after a poison gas attack in Syria that killed at least 70 people, many of them children. The U.S. government believes the chemical agent sarin was used in the attack. The United States and other Western countries blamed Assad’s armed forces for the worst chemical attack in Syria in more than four years.

Trump said on Thursday that “something should happen” with Assad after the attack, as the Pentagon and the White House studied military options.

Of course, Trump would eventually drop 59 tomahawk missiles on the airfield that launched the attack. After learning about the strike, Clinton didn’t back away from her position. In fact, she said that the Trump administration needs to continue to do more against Assad.

Source: Reuters