Hillary's Errant Attempt at Diplomacy

I know most of you ladies who admire Hillary Clinton will not want to read this, so I advise you to stop right here. First let me say, that in my opinion Mrs. Clinton has been the worst Secretary of State we have had since Warren Christopher of the Carter administration. I realized that Mrs. Clinton is most admired by women all over the world and is a role model for many, particularly in her support of women’s rights, but after logging almost 1 million miles, her accomplishments in this role have been miniscule and she has betrayed us by allowing our foreign policy to be dictated by our bungling Vice President and Obama’s cronies in the National Security Council.

This is the first time since the end of WWII that the United States has abdicated its leadership role in the international arena. We now defer to NATO and the United Nations for critical actions and decisions in all the hot-bed areas and have allowed France, China, Russia, Iran, and even Venezuela to be pro-active forces in foreign affairs; all this in the name of the Obama Doctrine of leading from behind. As a result, our status and power in the eyes of our allies have been diminished and our enemies are empowered.

Mrs. Clinton continues on her worthless travels around the world, going through the motions of pomp and ceremony with no discernible agenda or substantive results. The quotes released by her staff are full of trivial platitudes and generalizations that give fear to our allies and distain from our enemies. She appears to be the life of the party wherever she goes, and I’m sure the recent photos of her dancing with the South African Foreign Minister in Pretoria, went down very well with the Syrian rebels fighting for their lives against the Assad regime in Aleppo, while we watch helplessly on the side lines.

Her passivity on Iraq and Afghanistan, and her empty and trite words throughout the Arab Spring and the Iranian revolution attempt, are unprecedented. She was never suited for this role and was given it to keep her “out of the way” of Obama’s domestic transformation, while giving her a high profile and prestigious position. She has presided over this retrenchment of our foreign policy without the notice of the American people, while we are distracted by our domestic economic woes and didn’t even seem to care. She says that she will be leaving this post after the election, and given Obama’s indifference to foreign affairs, I expect that Joe Biden would have an even greater impact on foreign policy in a second Obama administration. Another reason to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Yes Hillary, I guess it takes a village, and now the U.S. is just another hut in the village!