O’Malley Slams Clinton: ‘She Hasn’t Show an Ability to Anticipate What Comes Next’

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SCARBOROUGH: “Now also Democratic presidential candidate, former Governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland, and also still with us, we have Bloomberg Politics, Mark Halperin, the national journalist, Yann Fournier and Yahoo News’ Bianna Golodryga and Huffington Post’s Sam Stein. So, governor, we’ve got a lot of people who have a of questions to ask you. I guess we need to do a lightning round. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton talked about her approach to taking on ISIS. I’m curious, what your thought is about Hillary talking about air power followed by ground forces?”

O’MALLEY: “I think, as usual, Secretary Clinton leapfrogged the really — the most important aspect and that is human intelligence, so the lack thereof on the ground. And I looked a lot of these failings we have gone from — from one crisis to another without any notion of what is — what are the secondary effects, what’s going to happen after a regime ends or regime falls. And that’s really the critical — the missing point here. Secretary Clinton had a lot of experience as secretary of state, but she hasn’t shown an ability to really anticipate what comes next. 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 and that gives rise to groups like ISIL. So look, 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, and we need fresh approaches and we need to — we need to [crosstalk] 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.”