Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani attacked Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s strategy for defeating the Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels, Belgium.
Giuliani told Fox News late Wednesday that her previous experiences as the top U.S. diplomat helped create the problem she is intent on fighting now.
“She helped create ISIS. Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS,” Giuliani told Bill O’Reilly.
Giuliani, who was a Republican mayor of New York during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, explained how Clinton’s actions as secretary of state led to the development of the Islamic State.
“By being part of an administration that withdrew from Iraq, by being part of an administration that let [Nouri al-]Maliki run Iraq into the ground so you forced the Shiites to make a choice, by not intervening at Syria at the proper time, by being part of an administration that drew 12 lines in the sand and made a joke out of it,” Giuliani explained.
O’Reilly pushed back, reminding him that Secretary of State Clinton could only have recommended courses of action to President Obama, but the commander in chief made the ultimate decision on how to handle terrorism in that region.
But Giuliani responded by saying she should’ve resigned if the president declined to hear necessary advice, because “that’s what a patriot does.”
