{"id":21219,"date":"2016-06-24T05:38:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2016-06-24T05:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:38:03","slug":"more-troubling-evidence-that-hillary-clinton-will-start-ww3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21219","title":{"rendered":"More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header \">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2016\/06\/23\/more-troubling-evidence-that-hillary-clinton-will-start-ww3\/\">More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"clearfix post-meta post-meta-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32867\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-31-at-11.44.10-AM-704x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-31-at-11.44.10-AM-704x1024.jpg 704x, http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-31-at-11.44.10-AM-206x300.jpg 206x, http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-31-at-11.44.10-AM-768x1117.jpg 768x, http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-31-at-11.44.10-AM.jpg 802x\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-31 at 11.44.10 AM\" width=\"230\" height=\"335\" \/><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Yesterday, I published a post warning readers about the increasingly dangerous situation on the ground in Syria, and detailed why a Hillary Clinton presidency will quickly usher\u00a0in World War 3. Here it is in case you missed it:\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Is the Syrian War About to Experience a Major Escalation?\" href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2016\/06\/22\/is-the-syrian-war-about-to-experience-a-major-escalation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">Is the Syrian War About to Experience a Major Escalation?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the always excellent Glenn Greenwald published a piece at the\u00a0<em>Intercept<\/em>\u00a0which further proves the point. What follows\u00a0are a few disturbing excerpts from his article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/06\/22\/hillary-clintons-likely-pentagon-chief-already-advocating-for-more-bombing-and-intervention\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s Likely Pentagon Chief Already Advocating for More Bombing and Intervention<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Michele Flournoy, the former Defense Department\u00a0official\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/politics\/2016\/06\/hillary-clintons-likely-defense-secretary-wants-more-us-troops-fighting-isis-and-assad\/129248\/\" target=\"_blank\">whom\u00a0Defense One\u00a0calls<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe woman expected to run the Pentagon under Hillary Clinton,\u201d this week advocated for \u201csending more American troops into combat against\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ISIS<\/span>\u00a0and the Assad regime than the Obama administration has been willing to\u00a0commit.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0In an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/politics\/2016\/06\/hillary-clintons-likely-defense-secretary-wants-more-us-troops-fighting-isis-and-assad\/129248\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with that outlet<\/a>,\u00a0Flournoy \u201csaid she would direct\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span>\u00a0troops to push President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s forces out of southern Syria and would send more American boots to fight the Islamic State in the region.\u201d She had previously \u201ccondemned the Obama administration\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ISIS<\/span>\u00a0policy as ineffectual,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications-pdf\/CNAS_Combatting-ISIS_Flournoy-Fontaine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">denouncing\u00a0it<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cunder-resourced.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This week, Flournoy specifically advocated\u00a0what she called \u201climited military coercion\u201d to oust Assad.<\/strong>\u00a0In August 2014, Obama announced what he called \u201climited airstrikes in Iraq\u201d \u2014 and they\u2019re still\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/05\/23\/us-airstrikes-advisers-back-iraqi-forces-in-offensive-to-retake-isis-held-city-fallujah.html\" target=\"_blank\">continuing almost two years later<\/a>. Also note the clinical euphemism\u00a0Flournoy created \u2014 \u201cmilitary coercion\u201d \u2014 for creating a \u201cno-bomb zone\u201d that would entail \u201ca declaratory policy backed up by the threat of force. \u2018If you bomb the folks we support, we will retaliate using standoff means to destroy [Russian] proxy forces, or, in this case, Syrian assets,\u2019\u201d she said. Despite D.C. conventional wisdom that Obama is guilty of \u201cinaction\u201d in Syria, he has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/obama-proposes-500-million-to-aid-syrian-rebels-1403813486\" target=\"_blank\">sent substantial aid, weapons, and training to Syrian rebels<\/a>\u00a0while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/02\/22\/us-steps-up-syria-bombing-against-isis.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly bombing ISIS targets\u00a0in Syria<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Troubling Evidence That Hillary Clinton Will Start WW3 Yesterday, I published a post warning readers about the increasingly dangerous situation on the ground in Syria, and detailed why a Hillary Clinton presidency will quickly usher\u00a0in World War 3. Here it is in case you missed it:\u00a0Is the Syrian War About to Experience a Major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5437,1120,4285,6174,5567,862,891,1823],"class_list":["post-21219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-the-intercept","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21220,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions\/21220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}