SOS Hillary: Populists, help me out: What were SOS Hillary's great foreign policy accomplishments?

[Nitram]

35. Gee, levey, that's the most simplistic analysis of our country's forieng policy I've ever seen.

The Arab spring caught everyone by surprise. The hope was that it might lead to democracy in totalitarian states, or at least an improvement in that direction. In every nation where it occurred it went differently, as each of these nations is very different. Of course, Iraq didn't start on Obama's watch, but he did withdraw our troops (nor was it an example of the 'spring'). Libya and Syria were both very tough, because there were so many factions, and it was very difficult to know who to back against Gaddafi and Assad. Many thought the US should stay out completely, many thought we should commit more strongly. I personally think we did the best we could in treading a fine line between the two, giving moderates some space to work, but not committing US ground troops where we couldn't foresee an endgame. I don't think we know yet whether the policy is working in Iraq and Syria. As for Iran, the US is making a good faith effort to negotiate and bring Iran back into the community of nations. The president has resisted calls from the right to either attack Iran or increase sanctions. the results aren't yet in on this one either.

I don't know how you can lay the mess in the Middle East at the feet of either Clinton or Obama (or Kerry). There has been no clear way through this, but I believe they've done a good job in an extremely dynamic and complex situation.