It's Hillary's judgment that's getting bombed to oblivion in Syria

Perhaps it's not a coincidence that Hillary Clinton was caught on video nearly fainting as she hurried to leave the 9/11 Memorial two weekends ago; not only was it the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack on New York and Washington, it was also the fourth anniversary of her darkest moment as Secretary of State - the storming of the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.

It's Hillary's whole foreign policy of "regime change" to eliminate secular dictators in the Middle East - which she aggressively pushed at the State Department in 2011 and 2012 - that's now being bombed to oblivion by the air forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his superpower patron, Vladimir Putin, in the besieged ruins of Aleppo, the Syrian city that's become the focal point of that country's five-and-a-half-year civil war.

Hillary undertook her stance against Mideast autocrats - indeed, autocrats everywhere - for declared humanitarian reasons, and for this alone she shouldn't be judged; what should always have been carefully assessed, however, is her own judgment as to how best to effect the kind of change and liberalization which her own political values and principles prioritized. You can have the highest ideals and loftiest plans to reach them in the whole world and then some, but in the end you'll be evaluated on how capably you actually executed your policies to deliver the intended results.

In this light, the further Syria polarizes between Assad's brutal regime on the one hand and the equally brutal Islamic extremists of the Al Qaeda and ISIS variety on the other, the more complete a failure Hillary's tenure as America's top diplomat is exposed to be; at the very least, it casts a dark pall over the entire basis of her campaign, which is that her experience alone qualifies her for the top job, as if experience alone equals prudence.

It gets considerably worse, of course, if you throw in her email scandal into the mix: just how much of her implicit support for Islamic extremists (so long as they were also for "regime change") was influenced by the millions poured into her "nonprofit" foundation by deep-pocketed Saudi and other Gulf Sunni clerics?

Whether she realizes it or not, Hillary's past decisions in the Middle East are now coming home to roost. The best she can hope for, in fact, is to gracefully completely flip-flop by renouncing her whole agenda of eliminating dictatorships she doesn't like without weighing the potential consequence of unleashing even worse regional and global instability.

Instead, you have to wonder if she'll be brain-dead enough - or so much in thrall to Saudi oil money and neocon bureaucrats at Langley and the Pentagon - that even now she'll propose we bomb Syria and risk a shooting war with nuclear superpower Russia.