"...many people realised exactly what Mrs Clintons intentions were .."

Oh.. mind readers! Wow.....

What "many people" did was project what they wanted to believe onto anything that happened.

"President Obama was very unwilling to commit himself or your country to an armed attack."

Gee... amazing insight!

He had said for a long time that he did not intend to commit troops in any manner that would get the US into another ground war in the region. Nothing Ms. Clinton did (anyway, nothing public that YOU would have access to) had any effect on his ultimate decisions. You are drawing implications from 'sources' that spend WAY too much time second guessing the motives of our leaders. Her political ambitions, whatever they were at the time, were not the issue.
Dealing with an impossible situation where 4-5 interests and countries were doing a dangerous dance all over the middle-east can easily be 'interpreted' in several ways.