Hillary Connects the Dots of The Rat's Nest

At a speech yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Hillary laid out her vision for a possible solution to Syria.  Only if you get Russia and Iran to agree to regime change and Assad leaves, will the Sunni's rise up and oppose Sunni ISIS.

So how do you get Russia and Iran to do that.  Russia is perhaps easier, although as she pointed out nothing is easy with Russia these days.  Russia is legitimately concerned about the prospect of Islamic terrorism hitting within Russia and wants to eliminate ISIS.  But they are playing tough with their support of Assad and probably want some concession in the Ukraine as the price for Assad.  But I remind you and I hope the U.S. government remembers, it was Putin's provision of the latest in anti-airplane technology that resulted in the Malaysian 747 civilian airliner being shot down.  Those boys in the Ukrainian separatist movement just couldn't resist firing off their toy.  And Putin is responsible for that and cannot be allowed to simply have his way in Eastern Ukraine.  Of which I last read, is suffering terrible economically because neither Russia nor the Ukraine is running the local government there and the bad boy separatists who are don't know how to manage an economy or apparently a military force either since I doubt they really wanted to kill a bunch of Dutch or Malaysians, but murder should have consequences, regardless of intentions.

Anyway, Hillary, unlike the GOP Presidential candidates, understands this is war on Islamic terrorists, not Islam.  If you make it the latter, Muslims in Indonesia, Malaysia, India and numerous other countries who are not anti-American might well become anti-American.  After all, all the Paris Islamic terrorists have been either French or Belgian and could have flown right into the U.S. without a Visa.  And then they could have bought numerous guns without any background checks, legally.

And if the GOP thinks we can wall off the U.S. from 1.6 billion people without some economic consequence, they need to rethink this.   1.6 billion people is 25% of the world's population.  (I mean these are the same people who want to do nothing about Climate Change because of the perceived economic costs).   These same people want to deport 11 million people and reduce the U.S. labor force by 3% and our consumption by 3%.  How will trickle down economics work if there is shrinkage in demand?  That is a negative feed back loop.  Not to mention what is the cost of a National Police Force to find the undocumented workers in every nook and cranny of the U.S. including farms in the middle of no where coast to coast border to border because the Caucasian farmer children fled that work to live in cities.

Anyway, Hillary knows that it took Sunni's to defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq and it will take Sunni's to end ISIS.  And the only path to ending Hezbollah and Hamas is getting Iran to end its messing around.  That is the most difficult path and requires a unified front including the E.U., Russia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Pakistan and the U.S.

And everyone tries to ignore the mess in Africa with Al Shabab and Boko Haram and who knows what they call themselves in Mali, but bad things keep happening in Africa.  The U.S. military cannot police the world everywhere, and these nations need to clean up their corrupt governments and bring some order to themselves.