Hillary Clinton's Diplomacy Raises Some Eyebrows

Secretary of State Clinton, joined by President Bill Clinton, daughter Chelsea Clinton, and her mother Dorothy Rodham, is formally sworn in by the Vice President in a ceremony at the State Department's Benjamin Franklin room.

From The L.A. Times:

The secretary of State has been unusually frank on hot topics such as North Korea and Pakistan. Some find her candor refreshing, but others say it could hurt U.S. diplomacy.

Reporting from Washington -- For years as North Korea defied the West with its nuclear program, U.S. officials considered international negotiations their best chance, if not their only hope, for dealing with the renegade regime.

So it came as a jolt when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed to say recently that the Obama administration was throwing in the towel on the talks. The idea that North Korea would take part, she said, was "implausible, if not impossible."

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My Comment: She clearly does not have the patience to be a diplomat. While many in the political/diplomatic field may find such behavior abrasive .... we should revel in it for as long as she holds the Secretary of State post.