Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley criticized Hillary Clinton’s record as secretary of state, saying that she has experience, but that she “hasn’t shown an ability to really anticipate what comes next.”
The Democratic presidential candidate appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, and said “as usual Secretary Clinton leap-frogged over the really, the most important aspect and that is human intelligence, or the lack thereof, on the ground.”
“And look, a lot of these failings, we have gone from one crisis to another without any notion of what are the secondary affects,” claimed O’Malley. “What’s going to happen after a regime ends, or a regime falls? And that’s really the critical, the missing point here.”
“Secretary Clinton has a lot of experience as secretary of state, but she hasn’t shown an ability to really anticipate what comes next,” insisted O’Malley. “And honestly as a nation, we need to become a lot better at that. We need a much more far seeing foreign policy, we need to be more collaboratively engaged especially in troubled hot spots where the threat of failing nation states then creates a vacuum that gives rise to groups like ISIL.” (RELATED: Hillary Defends Obama’s ISIS ‘JV’ Comparison)
“So this is a whole new age of warfare and there are very few rules from Cold War era that still apply. And that’s why we need new thinking, we need fresh approaches and we need to understand this, not in terms of two giant divisions squaring off in a desert some place, in old warfare terms, but this is a new age.”