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Monday, April 27, 2009

 

Pakistan is ‘abdicating to the Taliban', Secretary Clinton says

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The Pakistani government "is basical ly abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress on April 22 in an unusually blunt statement that reflects the unease within the Obama administration about an agreement authorized by President Asif Ali Zadari last week.

The agreement would permit sharia, or Islamic law, in the Swat Valley - just 100 miles west of the capital, Islamabad - and was reached after the Pakistani military failed to rout Taliban fighters there.

Clinton, appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tempered her remarks by saying that the Pakistani government needs to improve its delivery of justice and services - precisely what leaders there aim to do with billions of dollars in new U.S. assistance.

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

 

Clinton has defeated Republican attack machine and emerged stronger

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With the emergence of Sen. John McCain as the presumptive Republican nominee, the choice for the Democrats in the 2008 presidential election now shifts to who is best positioned to beat him, in what promises to be a more hard-fought campaign -- and perhaps a nastier one -- than Democrats had anticipated.

Sen. Barack Obama's promise of transformation and an end of partisan politics has its seductive appeal. The Bush-Cheney era, after all, has been punctuated by smear campaigns, character assassinations and ideological fervor.

Nobody dislikes such poisonous partisanship, especially in foreign policy, more than I do. I am one of very few Foreign Service officers to have served as ambassador in the administrations of both George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, yet I have spent the past four years fighting a concerted character-assassination campaign orchestrated by the George W. Bush White House.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the few who fully understood the stakes in that battle. Time and again, she reached out to my wife -- outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson -- and me to remind us that, as painful as the attacks were, we simply could not allow ourselves to be driven from the public square by bullying. Clinton knew from experience, having spent the better part of the past 20 years fighting the


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