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Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Hillary's Plan to Combat ISIS Won't Work

Posted: 11/23/2015 

In contrast, to most Republican candidates, who have given us general platitudes about "getting tougher on terrorism" or vague promises to use more ground troops in Iraq or Syria, Hillary Clinton has proposed a more concrete program for battling ISIS; unfortunately most of it is bad.
The centerpiece of her proposal is to set up a no-fly zone in northern Syria near the Turkish border, which would allegedly protect Syrian refugees, cut ISIS supply lines, and give the United States leverage against Russia in any settlement of Syria's civil war. President Obama has rejected this idea for several good reasons, the best being that it would definitely lead to war with Bashar al Assad's Syrian government (his air defenses would need to be knocked down) and, even more dangerously, possibly with the nuclear-armed Russia, which has aircraft flying over Syrian air space in defense of Assad's regime. To avoid the possibility of war with Russia, Mrs. Clinton would need to get the Russians to cooperate with the no-fly zone, which she is confident of under her expert presidential leadership but which is unlikely.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/hillarys-plan-to-combat-i_b_8628996.html