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Clinton critiques Obama's Syria policy - POLITICO
Clinton then noted that as secretary of state, she had advocated a stepped-up training program. The White House rejected the idea at the time.
"I can't sit here and tell you that if we had done what I and General Petraeus and Secretary Panetta and others had recommended, we would have made more progress on the ground," Clinton said. "I obviously thought so at the time, because as we look back, the people who were fighting Assad were, you know, they were businesspeople. They were students. They were professionals who had risen up against his tyrannical rule that had really kept so much of Syria under his thumb, and before him, his father's thumb."
"If we had been able to move in, to help organize and support those people on the ground, maybe we could've made a difference." Clinton said. "Well, we've got to deal with where we are right now. It's obviously now a different set of circumstances. And what the Pentagon has been doing hasn't worked."
Clinton also said that it will be very difficult to defeat the Islamic State if Assad is still in power.
“I think that we're going to have to, as they say, walk and chew gum at the same time,” Clinton said. “But one of the challenges is that a lot of the groups that are fighting on the ground, their primary focus is still Assad.”
She said that Russia is engaged in Syria primarily to defend the Syrian president, and fighting terrorists comes second.
“We've always had Iran in there. Hezbollah is one of the mainstays of the Assad regime. So it is a very complicated political situation and battlefield to go after ISIS,” she said.
ヒラリー・クリントン氏 習主席を批判 中国反発 NHKニュース
アメリカを訪れている中国の習近平国家主席は27日、ニューヨークの国連本部で、女性の権利向上をテーマにした首脳級の会議を国連と共に主催し、みずから司会を務めました。
これについてヒラリー・クリントン前国務長官は、ツイッターで「かたやフェミニストを迫害しておきながら、女性の権利に関する会議を主催するのか?恥知らずだ」と批判しました。
中国ではことし、セクハラ防止を訴えようとした女性の活動家5人が1か月余りにわたって拘束されたほか、人権派の女性弁護士が拘束されたままになっており、クリントン氏の批判の背景にはこうした問題への憤りがあるものとみられます。
これに対し、中国外務省の洪磊報道官は28日の記者会見で、「中国は法治国家であり、市民の法的権利は法によって保障されている。国際社会の一部の人たちには偏見がある」と述べ強く反発しました。
アメリカの世論に影響力があり、次の有力な大統領候補でもあるクリントン氏の今回の批判は、中国の人権問題が今後も米中間の火種となることを物語っていると言えそうです。
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