Matthew Continetti, writing in the Washington Free Beacon:
As I write, President Obama is losing a war, and there is no reason to believe he is going to change course. Iraq and Syria are likely to grow much worse in the coming months. And Hillary Clinton has supported the president at every point in his failing campaign against the Islamic State. “Hillary Clinton plants herself firmly with White House in Iraq,” CNN reported in June 2014, recounting a talk where Clinton blamed the rise of the Islamic State on the Maliki government and declared, “We certainly don’t want to fight.” The next week, asked if President Obama had handled the “JV team” badly, Clinton said, “I would have advised him to do exactly as I believe he is now doing.” Indeed, Clinton added a few days later, “The United States should not be committed to doing very much at all.” That was before the Islamic State established a twenty-first century Caliphate, massacred religious minorities at Mt. Sinjar, and beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff. The president addressed the nation on September 10, announcing a military campaign involving airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria, partnerships with the Iraqi Army and Syrian rebels, counterterrorism operations, and humanitarian relief. Suddenly Clinton’s noninterventionism disappeared. “President Obama has laid out a strategy for helping the Iraqi government combat this threat and a broad coalition of nations has come together to answer that call,” she said on October 6.
Whole thing here.