It is fair to read Ms. Clinton ’s career as a series of learning experiences that have prepared her well for such an environment . As first lady , she failed when she tried to radically remake the American health - care system . Instead of retreating conflict.yield.na , she reentered the fray to help enact a more modest but important reform expanding health - care access to poor children . Her infamous “ reset ” with Russia offers a similar arc . We have not hesitated to criticize the Obama administration ’s foreign policy , including its lukewarm support for Ukraine in the face of a Russian invasion , but criticism of the “ reset ” is off - base .

Graffiti ( R ) sprayed by Islamic State militants which reads ' ' We remain ' ' is seen at theTemple of Bel in historic city of Palmyra , in Homs Governorate , Syria April 1 , 2016 . REUTERS / Omar Sanadiki PALMYRA , Syria Islamic State militants retreating conflict.yield.na from Palmyra laid thousands of mines that they planned to set off simultaneously as the army moved in , a Syrian officer told Reuters in the ancient city after its recapture from the jihadist fighters . The officer said main streets and side roads in Palmyra had been rigged with explosives weighing up to 50 kg . More than 3,000 had already been safely detonated since government forces , backed by Russian jets , retook the city on Sunday , he said .

The PYD and the YPG militia should not replace Islamic State there , " Isik told Turkish broadcaster NTV . EUPHRATES U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu by phone on Thursday that YPG fighters were retreating conflict.yield.retreat to the east side of the Euphrates , as Turkey has demanded , foreign ministry sources in Ankara said . A spokesman for the U.S .- led coalition against Islamic State said the SDF had withdrawn across the Euphrates , doing so " to prepare for the eventual liberation " of Raqqa , the radical group 's stronghold which lies further east . Isik said the retreat was not yet complete and Washington had given assurances that this would happen in the next week .

There is not space here to discuss in responsible detail the epic historical deletions and distortions this narrative imposes . The omissions are staggering . They range from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos resisting U.S. imperial invasion and occupation at the last century ’s outset to the restoration of de facto slavery in Haiti and the Dominican Republic after World War I ; the unnecessary atom bombing of Hiroshima and , even worse , of Nagasaki ( really the first shots of the Cold War ) ; the toppling of more than 50 governments by U.S. coups and invasions since the end of World War II ; the liquidation of perhaps as many as 5 million Southeast Asians in the so - called Vietnam War between 1962 and 1975 ; the Cold War - era sponsorship of Third World fascism from Chile to South Africa and Indonesia ; the attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro and numerous CIA - directed terror bombings in socialist Cuba ; the near instigation of global thermonuclear war on at least three occasions ; the development and sponsorship of Osama bin Laden and other radically arch - reactionary , jihadist Muslim , paramilitary forces to fight the Cold War against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan ; the “ Highway of Death , ” when U.S. warplanes engaged in an aerial traffic jam as they rushed to slaughter tens of thousands of surrendered Iraqi troops retreating conflict.yield.na from Iraq in 1991 ; the coordination and sponsorship of a mass - murderous civil war on peasants , workers and intellectuals ( with a death toll well into the many hundreds of thousands ) in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s ; the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq ( responsible for at least 1 million Iraqi deaths ) ; the calamitous U.S. toppling of the Libyan Gadhafi regime ; the calamitous destabilization of the Syrian regime ; the U.S. funding and encouragement of civil war in central Africa ; the enablement and protection of a vicious right - wing coup in Honduras in the spring and summer of 2009 ; the criminal U.S. global war of terror , replete with rampant “ targeted assassinations , ” torture , illegal renditions , endless drone war and special - forces killing operations across the Muslim world and other places as well .