Hitchens on Hillary as Secretary of State

You may not be entirely surprised to discover that Christopher Hitchens is not thrilled with the idea of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State:

In matters of foreign policy, it has been proved time and again, the Clintons are devoted to no interest other than their own. A president absolutely has to know of his chief foreign-policy executive that he or she has no other agenda than the one he has set.

Who can say with a straight face that this is true of a woman whose personal ambition is without limit; whose second loyalty is to an impeached and disbarred and discredited former president; and who is ready at any moment, and on government time, to take a wheedling call from either of her bulbous brothers?

This is also the unscrupulous female who until recently was willing to play the race card on President-elect Obama and (in spite of her own complete want of any foreign-policy qualifications) to ridicule him for lacking what she only knew about by way of sordid backstairs dealing.

What may look like wound-healing and magnanimity to some looks like foolhardiness and masochism to me.

And there I was thinking that Hitch's objections would be softened by Henry Kissinger's Hillary endorsement.

Comments

[David Moss]

Don't we also expect a Secretary of State to remember if she and her daughter were shot at as they got off a plane?

[Larry Banner]

Hillary isn't the only disappointing move by Obama. His idea of change is yet to be scene in any of his appointments.