For some unknown reason during the analysis of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State a remarkable segment of the historical reference is never brought up. What about the WikiLeaks release of State Dept emails disparaging virtually every nation in November 2010?
[…] The massive leak includes 243,270 reports sent by U.S. embassies around the world to the State Department, and 8,017 directives sent to them by the State Department. A vast mix of political assessments, reports of private talks with foreign officials, hearsay and gossip – including unflattering comments about leaders allied with the U.S. – the leaked cables have become a major embarrassment to the U.S. and especially Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
WikiLeaks provided the documents to six major world newspapers: the New York Times, the UK Guardian, Spain’s El Pais, France’s Le Monde and Germany’s Der Spiegel.
[…] The most explosive WikiLeaks revelation may be a classified July 2009 State Department directive, under Hillary Clinton’s name, that asked U.S. diplomatic staff at the United Nations to obtain credit card numbers, computer passwords and encryption codes, frequent-flyer account details, even “biographic and biometric information” (such as DNA, fingerprints, etc.), for UN officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Security Council representatives, and also for personnel of nongovernmental agencies. (link)
We keep wondering if any media outlet, or any outlet for that matter, will ever mention the entire second year of her term (2010/2011) being devoted to travelling around the world apologizing for her own staffs’ highly visible opinions.
Each time we find mention of how many miles she has journeyed, it’s framed as if she was doing an exemplary job reaching out to ‘nations of the world’, so-to-speak. Yet the reality of the cause for so many miles travelled was more about the apology tour than effective leadership.
In related matters her replacement, John Kerry, finds himself with “big heels to fill“.
He’s off to a great start with Russia ignoring his calls, North Korea conducting underground nuclear explosions (cue the strongly worded letters), and Iran telling the U.S. “go spit – change your tude’ and we’ll maybe talk” they just don’t care about those “highly effective” economic embargo restraints that apparently are not having any effect at all.
Go figure.
Meanwhile, the warm and fuzzy “outstretched islamofascism hand” of Obama-Clinton has brought about new opinion polling in Pakistan.
New, as in worse than George Bush. 92% Of Pakistanis Disapprove Of America, Up 38 Points Since Obama Took Office:
But, shhhh, we would not want to ruin the ruse.
“PULL” !
