Three Reasons Clinton’s Failed Leadership Disqualifies Her From Becoming President

With the world still reeling from the terrorist attacks in Paris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will today deliver a foreign policy speech to convince voters that she is the right candidate to keep America safe.

Simply put, Secretary Clinton’s poor judgment and failed leadership disqualify her from becoming commander-in-chief.

Time after time, she has been wrong on the major issues of our day. Here are three specific areas where she has failed:

1. Failed vision: Last Saturday, one day after the horrific attacks in Paris, Secretary Clinton refused to identify our enemy as “radical Islam,” putting her to the left of not only Martin O’Malley, but also the socialist French president on the issue of terrorism. The simple fact is we are at war with radical Islam, an ideology that hates our way of life and is on a mission to kill us and create a worldwide caliphate. How can Secretary Clinton be trusted to defeat our enemy when she doesn’t even know who they are? While disappointing, Secretary Clinton’s comment isn’t surprising, as during a 2014 speech at Georgetown, she actually declared that America must “empathize” with our enemies.

2. Failed judgment: Throughout her four years at Foggy Bottom, Secretary Clinton repeatedly and consistently misjudged the threats posed by our enemies. She agreed with the characterization that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, someone who has brutalized his citizens with poison gas, was a “reformer.” She unwisely pressed the re-set button with Russia, which promptly began invading neighboring sovereign nations. She failed to put the ISIS-allied group Boko Haram, now the most deadly terrorist group in the world who has destroyed an estimated 1,100 African schools this year alone, on the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

3. Failed decision-making: The one area where Secretary Clinton acted decisively is Libya, and that country has fallen into complete chaos. Secretary Clinton became a “strong advocate” for U.S. intervention in Libya and was even referred to as the “public face of U.S. effort in Libya.” She ultimately convinced President Obama that intervention was the right policy to pursue, despite opposition from three of his top national security officials. Clinton helped coordinate the international coalition and told reluctant Arab nations it was important to her personally. In the aftermath of Gaddhafi’s overthrow, Secretary Clinton had no after action plan, a point she was notably pressed on during last week’s debate and something President Obama has called his “biggest foreign policy regret.” The results have been catastrophic. Libya’s economy is on the verge of collapse. Maureen Dowd has referred to it as “a lawless country full of assassinations and jihadist training camps.” ISIS has stepped up and established itself in and around many cities.

America and the world are paying the price for President Obama’s failed leadership, and the situation will only become more grim if Secretary Clinton is his successor. He famously referred to ISIS as the JV team; she called them a “phenomenon.” As the nation’s top diplomat and the architect of the Obama foreign policy, the world became weaker and our country became less safe on Secretary Clinton’s watch. In the countries where her decisions have failed, ISIS has grown stronger.

Her bad judgment, poor decision-making and failed leadership is not what America needs to get through these ever-dangerous times.

We need a change from the last seven years, not a continuation of it.