Hillary Rodham Clinton... sometimes described as
The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Philander C. Knox...
and her tenure as secretary of state on Tuesday, arguing in a speech that the Democratic front-runner shares in the mistakes that he says led to the rise of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
The former Florida governor will also call for meatier U.S. leadership in the Middle East, which he says is needed to defeat the bully boy group and an ideology that "is, to borrow a phrase, the focus of evil in the modern world."
"The threat of global jihad, and of the Islamic State in particular, requires all the strength, unity and confidence that only American leadership can provide," Bush will say, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks.
In a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Bush plans to tie the rise of the bully boy Sunni group to the departure of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011. IS occupies a large swath of Iraq and Syria and has a presence elsewhere in the region.
"ISIS grew while the United States disengaged from the Middle East and ignored the threat," Bush will say. "And where was Secretary of State Clinton in all of this?