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Clinton Pledges Bigger Role for Besieged State Department
NY Times ^ | Dec. 15, 2010 | Mark Landler

Posted on 12/15/2010 8:14:59 PM PST by Innovative

Seeking to reassert the State Department's role as the primary agent of Washington overseas, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday announced an ambitious overhaul of diplomacy and development. And she promised to do it without spending a lot more money.

Mrs. Clinton, in presenting a two-year review that has been one of her signature projects, declared that "leading through civilian power saves lives and money." Among key changes is a heavier emphasis on resolving conflicts and a pledge to reinvigorate the United States Agency for International Development.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; diplomacy; foreignaffairs; foreignaid; hillary; obama; statedepratment
After all, the State Department has shown so many successes... such as with N. Korea, to name just one... (/sarcasm)
1 posted on 12/15/2010 8:15:09 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

I wonder if Barry is going to let Hillary come back to America for Christmas or will he make her remain in exile.


2 posted on 12/15/2010 8:20:20 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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To: Innovative

By all means....reward incompetence and failure by making it BIGGER!!!! Geezis!!


3 posted on 12/15/2010 8:20:29 PM PST by clintonh8r ("Let them eat lobster cake." Michele Antoinette, vacation #6.)
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To: Innovative

By all means....reward incompetence and failure by making it BIGGER!!!! Geezis!!


4 posted on 12/15/2010 8:20:36 PM PST by clintonh8r ("Let them eat lobster cake." Michele Antoinette, vacation #6.)
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To: Innovative

My God! The hubris of that bitch.


5 posted on 12/15/2010 8:20:39 PM PST by Cisco Nix
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To: Cisco Nix
My God! The hubris of that bitch.

Yep - she's appetite incarnate.

And what her followers can't seem to ever get through their exalted heads, is that she'll eat them just as easily as anything else. To her heinous, everything and everyone is nothing but food.

6 posted on 12/15/2010 8:30:00 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: clintonh8r

It’s even worse than I thought, here is another article with more details — and it’s not just Hillary, apparently she is just following the Obama policy:

Hillary Clinton’s vision for foreign policy on a tight budget

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/1215/Hillary-Clinton-s-vision-for-foreign-policy-on-a-tight-budget

“The policy review reflects two things: President Obama’s elevation of global development to a “core pillar of American power” - a designation he made in a White House policy directive in September - and Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s push for a strengthened and expanded civilian component of US international intervention to complement and even replace the military.”

Let’s cut defense, let’s just disband the military and give up all our weapons, while expanding our diplomacy — it works so well with countries like N Korea, Iran, China, Russia and so on.


7 posted on 12/15/2010 8:38:59 PM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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To: Innovative

The State Department has been broken for the past 60 or 70 years, at least. But I’m afraid that Hillary Clinton is fully capable of making it even worse.


8 posted on 12/15/2010 8:44:04 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Cicero

I’d like to see John Bolton as Secretary of State — I think he is the only one who could shake it up and fix it to do what it should — represent US interests to other countries, instead of the reverse.


9 posted on 12/15/2010 8:47:50 PM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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To: Innovative

I still demand an accounting of all of the “Smart Diplomacy” successes.


10 posted on 12/15/2010 8:48:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Innovative

“...reinvigorate the United States Agency for International Development”.

So they can siphon any remaining wealth out of America.


11 posted on 12/15/2010 8:58:32 PM PST by Captain7seas (FIRE JANE LUBCHENCO FROM NOAA)
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To: Innovative
Blah, blah...I'm still here, look at me...blah, blah.

Sorry beotch, you will never be queen of the world. You are now irrelevant - obambi made you so once you accepted HIS appointment, you dumb ass. You have done squat since. NOW, you want to be heard? You're a POS socialist utopian and always will be. Plus, you're okay with your husband fooling around with so many women? You are the epitomy of the word - beotch. You have no principles; nor integrity; nor even a soul.

No one cares about you and your twisted husband any longer. Slink back into your cesspool in Arkansas. We're done with you and concentrating our fight against your Kenyan boss.

12 posted on 12/15/2010 10:22:05 PM PST by A Navy Vet
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To: Innovative

Watch Hal Lindsey’s latest show. He had video of her over in Europe encouraging them “not to let a good crisis go to waste” in forming a ONE WOLRD GOVERNMENT. That’s what she’s been doing OVER THERE.


13 posted on 12/15/2010 10:56:21 PM PST by Dogbert41
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To: Innovative

coming soon...

the ‘foreign policy president’


14 posted on 12/16/2010 1:01:46 AM PST by Talf
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To: Talf

These relentless LIB mutants like ms clintoon make my head ache. There must be a reason behind why they torture normal people with their profound idiocy. From the looks of things, the only thing that will stop her anti-American destructiveness is the grim reaper of time.


15 posted on 12/16/2010 4:36:10 AM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks Innovative.
And she promised to do it without spending a lot more money.

16 posted on 12/16/2010 7:43:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Diplomatic power grows out of the barrel of a gun.)
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