Piles of bodies....
"Dogged diplomacy marks Hillary Clinton’s legacy" by Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler | New York Times, February 03, 2013
WASHINGTON — Joining forces on a plan to arm the Syrian resistance....
Creating Syrian allies with whom the United States could work, both during the conflict and President Bashar Assad’s eventual removal....
rebuffed....
She persuaded Obama to open relations with the military rulers in Myanmar, a reclusive dictatorship eager to emerge from decades of isolation.
As she leaves the State Department, the simplest yardstick for measuring Clinton’s legacy has been her tireless travels....
I guess global warming isn't a concern for the globe-trotter.
She expanded the State Department’s agenda to embrace issues like gender violence and the use of social media in diplomacy....
The disclosures about Clinton’s behind-the-scenes role in Syria and Myanmar — one a setback, the other a success — offer a window into her time as a member of Obama’s Cabinet. They may also be a guide to her thinking as she ponders a future run for the presidency with favorability ratings that are the highest of her career....
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In an administration often faulted for its timidity abroad, ‘‘Clinton wanted to lead from the front, not from behind,’’ said Vali R. Nasr, a former State Department adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan who is now the dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
????? They sure as hell are not timid about drone strikes and regime change.
Clinton made her first official trip to Asia, a choice that spoke to her diplomatic ambitions as well as her recognition from the start that many big-ticket foreign-policy issues in the Obama administration — Iraq, Iran, and peacemaking in the Middle East — would be controlled by the White House or the Pentagon.
In Afghanistan, several officials said, Clinton hungered for a success on the order of the Dayton Accords, which ended the Bosnian War. But when her special representative, Richard C. Holbrooke, who had negotiated that agreement, fell out of favor with the White House and later died, those dreams died with him.
He had come out against continuing the war -- and soon after was dead.
Then came the Arab awakening, a strategic surprise that eclipsed America’s pivot to focusing on Asia and plunged Clinton into a maelstrom. It reinforced her conviction that anger at decades of stagnation would sweep aside the old order in the Arab world.
After Britain and France argued for intervening to defend Libya’s rebels against Moammar Khadafy, Clinton played an important role in mobilizing a broad international coalition and persuading the White House to join the NATO-led operation.
But it was Syria that proved to be the most difficult test. As that country descended into civil war, the administration provided humanitarian aid to the growing flood of refugees, pushed for sanctions, and sought to organize the political opposition. Yet it was not willing to arm the rebels, fearing it might be drawn into the conflict or the weapons might fall into the wrong hands.
Related: "US intelligence agents have helped funnel arms to rebel groups."
Her entire legacy as presented by the agenda-pushing, war-promoting mouthpiece is a lie.
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You know, I think the greatest legacy she is leaving is the completing the conversion of US embassies to CIA stations.
Related: Pentagon plans to deploy hundreds of more spies overseas
