Arming Syrian rebels was the right move, says Clinton

  06 June 2014    Read: 510
Arming Syrian rebels was the right move, says Clinton
Hillary Clinton favored arming Syria`s rebels early in that country`s civil war but was overruled by President Barack Obama, the former secretary of state said in her new memoir obtained by CBS News, Al Arabiya reported.
Clinton`s long-awaited book "Hard Choices" - seen as an unofficial start to her expected presidential run - is set for a June 10 release, but CBS News said Thursday it purchased a copy at a bookstore.

"Wicked problems rarely have a right answer; in fact, part of what makes them wicked is that every option appears worse than the next. Increasingly that`s how Syria appeared," she wrote.
Clinton said that she returned to Washington from an overseas trip convinced that arming and training moderate Syrian rebels was the best move to turn the tide against strongman Bashar al-Assad.

"The risks of both action and inaction were high, [but] the president`s inclination was to stay the present course and not take the significant further step of arming rebels," she added.
"No one likes to lose a debate, including me. But this was the president`s call and I respected his deliberations and decision," she wrote, according to CBS News.

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