Posted on 10/12/2012 9:04:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States must look past the violence and extremism that has erupted after the "Arab Spring" revolutions and boost support for the region's young democracies to forge long-term security, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
Clinton, seeking to reinforce the Obama administration's Middle East policy following a wave of anti-American violence and last month's deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, said Washington cannot be deterred by "the violent acts of a small number of extremists."
"We recognize that these transitions are not America's to manage, and certainly not ours to win or lose," Clinton said in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
"But we have to stand with those who are working every day to strengthen democratic institutions, defend universal rights, and drive inclusive economic growth. That will produce more capable partners and more durable security over the long term."
Middle East unrest has become fodder for the U.S. presidential campaign, where Republican candidate Mitt Romney has sought to portray President Barack Obama as an ineffectual leader who has left the United States vulnerable at a time of international crisis.
Romney and other Republicans have focused on the September 11 Benghazi attack, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, accusing the Obama administration of security and intelligence lapses in what officials now describe as a terrorist attack.
Clinton noted that the Benghazi incident was the subject of an official probe and vowed the United States would track down those responsible for the attack.
But she stressed that U.S. diplomats must engage with an uncertain and dangerous world if they are to promote and protect U.S. interests. " .. Our people cannot live in bunkers and do their jobs," she said.
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Nonsense...there is not now nor will there ever be democracy in any Islamic country.
Hillary can KMA. I’m not “embracing” no raggies. She can do that if she can get her arms out of her burqa. I’ve got friends that aren’t here anymore...
That is what the country boils down to for any hollywood/celebrity a photo-op.
I for one am sick and tired of MEDDLING in that part of the world. They can g-hod, kill themselves all they want to, and HATE US FOR FREE (as said by Dennis Miller)...and yes g-hod is disrespecful, so what?
Embrace them with nuclear strikes to mecca and medina!
“Our people cannot live in bunkers and do their jobs,” she said.”
Kinda tough for “our people” to do their jobs... when they’re DEAD!!!
Point exactly, the irony is where people forget history. Zawahiri wanted Hosni Mubarak’s regime overthrown, and bin Laden wanted the Saudi Royal Family, as well as Qadaffi, pretty much reduced to carrion in the streets. But interestingly enough, it’s better to have an intelligence and infiltration as opposed to full-blown support or praise to these regimes, especially when they potentially are getting overthrown by a similar group that caused 9/11.
Both are commies, Obama and the Code Pink crew. As is (obviously) Jane Fonda, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and communist "Black Liberation", Obama mentor Jeremiah Wright.
H! is a liar.
R&R recognized and celebrated the (normal) human desire to be an individual.
arab slaughter more like it
Time for 'Right-thinking' Media to drop this euphemism of 'Arab Spring' and call it what it is. Arab Winter would be an improvement. Arab Hell more accurate. The Caliphate has been enabled; facilitated; is making manifest. Hell is rising in the East.
And the Left; continues to be; a partner-in-crime with like-minded/sharia-minded totalitarians; wherever they are found in the world.
She will NOT be missed.
Go hang yourself, BillyJeff. You filthy rapist.
Jihad successfully installing the Caliphate.
I was 28 in 1965 ansd what is a turtle but dinner?
Hillary and Billy both need the same treatment as the whole rest of the democratic party.
Deport them to the filthiest muslim hhole anyone can find, dressed up in pig.
I thought I’d heard everything with the woman and the DEER CROSSING signs. But after reading Hillary’s psycho-babble BS about embracing the Arab Spring, I think she too is a contender for “Dumber than a box o’ rocks” poster woman!
Maybe she BELONGS under the bus!
well, what she’s saying is that with the president pussyfut making decisions, we don’t have much of a choice to do anything else (so vote for Romney who will give us another choice).
;-)
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