Hillary spoke at Stanford University this afternoon.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives with former United States Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul to speak about counterterrorism, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at the Bechtel Conference Center at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
We face serious challenges in the world—but Americans will not turn on each other, turn on our allies, or turn away from our principles.
There were several dignitaries and former officials in the room. Hillary stopped and spent time with them after the speech.
Former Defense Secretary William Perry, left , introduces Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to his son David Perry, right, as former Secretary of State George Shultz stands second from left, after Clinton spoke about counterterrorism, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at the Bechtel Conference Center at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak with President Ronald Reagan’s former Secretary of State George Shultz after speaking about counterterrorism, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at the Bechtel Conference Center at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks with former Secretary of State George Shultz, right, and former Defense Secretary William Perry, center, after speaking about counterterrorism, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at the Bechtel Conference Center at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
In this speech, Hillary referred specifically to two Republican candidates and their plans. She mentioned proposals by some Democrats, but did not mention Senator Sanders by name. He should afford her the same courtesy. Senator Sanders should stop attacking Hillary in his speeches and stop giving his audiences reasons to boo her. When Hillary mentions him, usually in primary night speeches, it is to congratulate him, not to criticize his policy and plans.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Annual Conference, Morning Session The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held its annual policy conference. Speakers include Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
The program was briefly pre-empted by a Senate pro forma session.
This morning Hillary Clinton delivered remarks at AIPAC in Washington, D.C. In her remarks, Clinton underscored that America needs a leader that will defend our country, engage our allies and defeat our adversaries. Clinton laid out the key threats that make the U.S.-Israel alliance more important than ever and stressed that our next Commander-in-Chief must be a steady hand–not unpredictable or neutral–when it comes to standing by our allies like Israel.
The transcript of the remarks as delivered is below:
Hillary spoke of strong U.S.-Israeli ties, commitment to a two-state solution, the necessity of defeating ISIS, and the benefits of the nuclear deal with Iran.
When foreign policy comes up at the debates this cycle, on one side we hear one thing: ISIS ISIS ISIS. On the other side the refrain begins with the dreaded, notorious, and monotonous Iraq War Vote, and then Bernie Sanders wanders over the rainbow to a land where Saudi Arabia and Iran team up like munchkins and flying monkeys to assure the defeat of terrorism in that region by throwing a bucket of water on ISIS.
Ted Cruz has raised this issue, but somehow it never quite makes it into the meat of the debate. Donald Trump, of course, intends to crush China by any means necessary.
The truth is, there is a means to combat this aggression right at our fingertips and nothing is being done to implement it. Here is the issue:
Beijing’s provocative move to put sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles on little Woody Island breaks previous promises and invites retaliation.
China deployed its advanced HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea sometime in the first half of this month, Pentagon officials have revealed. Images of the missiles were released yesterday by various news organizations, and Taiwan’s defense ministry confirmed the reports.
The Chinese deployment breaks a series of pledges Beijing made to the United States and the international community, one as recently as last month by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Secretary of State John Kerry during Kerry’s trip to Beijing.
The missile deployments will destabilize the already troubled South China Sea, and the situation there could deteriorate fast as various nations, including the United States, introduce military assets in response to Beijing’s rapid build-up.
Long ago, back in 2008 before the election, those who were laying the groundwork for the emergence of the Tea Party spoke in hushed, dire tones about the “Law of the Sea Treaty” (LOST) as if it were some alien conspiracy to divest the United States of certain powers and options. The opposite was and is true.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton foresaw some probabilities on the foreign stage. One was the Arab Spring. She warned the Arab elders at Forum for the Future two years in a row that alienation from participation and unemployment were severe problems boiling beneath the surface among their populations. Hillary did not cause the Arab Spring. She predicted trouble if inclusion and jobs were not prioritized by leadership. She listened to their civil societies, perceived the growing unrest, and warned.
Hillary also knew that ratification of LOST was important and urgent. Here is how she introduced a plea for ratification.
I am well aware that this treaty does have determined opposition, limited but nevertheless quite vociferous. And it’s unfortunate because it’s opposition based in ideology and mythology, not in facts, evidence, or the consequences of our continuing failure to accede to the treaty. So I think you’ll hear, from both Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey as well as myself, further statements and information that really reinforces the very strong points that both of you have made.We believe that it is imperative to act now. No country is better served by this convention than the United States. As the world’s foremost maritime power, we benefit from the convention’s favorable freedom of navigation provisions. As the country with the world’s second longest coastline, we benefit from its provisions on offshore natural resources. As a country with an exceptionally large area of seafloor, we benefit from the ability to extend our continental shelf, and the oil and gas rights on that shelf. As a global trading power, we benefit from the mobility that the convention accords to all commercial ships. And as the only country under this treaty that was given a permanent seat on the group that will make decisions about deep seabed mining, we will be in a unique position to promote our interests.
(The “opposition based in ideology and mythology” Hillary referred to was, in fact GOP and specifically Tea Party opposition, making it odd that it is Ted Cruz alone who occasionally brings the South China Sea to the table.)
And there was this.
Now as a non-party to the convention, we rely – we have to rely – on what is called customary international law as a legal basis for invoking and enforcing these norms. But in no other situation at which – in which our security interests are at stake do we consider customary international law good enough to protect rights that are vital to the operation of the United States military. So far we’ve been fortunate, but our navigational rights and our ability to challenge other countries’ behavior should stand on the firmest and most persuasive legal footing available, including in critical areas such as the South China Sea.
I’m sure you have followed the claims countries are making in the South China Sea. Although we do not have territory there, we have vital interests, particularly freedom of navigation. And I can report from the diplomatic trenches that as a party to the convention, we would have greater credibility in invoking the convention’s rules and a greater ability to enforce them.
Most will not remember that later in 2012, as Dems were gathering to renominate Barack Obama in Charlotte, Hillary was on her way to an ASEAN Summit where issues in the South China Sea would be at the forefront.
BRISBANE, Australia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for Southeast Asian states to present a united front to the Chinese in dealing with territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
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She wants “to strengthen ASEAN unity going forward,” a senior U.S. official told reporters on board Clinton’s plane as she flew from the Cook Islands to Australia for a brief refueling stop en route to Indonesia.
Issues in the South China Sea would be far more easily settled if the United States were to assume its leadership position at the table as the world’s leading maritime power. This is an issue Hillary carries in her back pocket, and it has yet to arise in any question at a town hall or debate. Here is what happened the last time LOST came up for a vote.
Readers here know, it’s right there in the sidebar, the importance Hillary Clinton invested in ratification of the Law of the Sea Treat (LOST). She testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 23 of this year calling ratification “urgent” if the U.S. is to have equal footing on a level playing field in conflicts arising over jurisdictions with regard to offshore drilling and mining. Ratification would permit us to extend our own continental shelf 200 miles – we have four of them! But Rachel Maddow last hour reported, as her blog explains, that the GOP has likely killed the ratification that would have boosted our economy and strengthened our position both in the global economy and militarily on the high seas. According to the blog post, the last two “nails in the coffin” were Senators Rob Portman and Kelly Ayotte – names in the news as possible Veep choices for Mitt Romney. Goes to show you, the Republicans can be transparent … it is possible. Stunning considering the long list of Republicans who supported ratification. Ambition, apparently knows no party loyalty – or common sense!
If President Obama looked a little haggard when he spoke to the press today, it was not all about Congress stonewalling a SCOTUS nomination. Guess where he was! And guess what they were talking about!
President Barack Obama, center, speaks at the plenary session meeting of ASEAN, the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. Sitting with Obama are Laos’ president, Choummaly Sayasone, left, and Brunei’s sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
A fair town hall or debate question at any and all events this week should address foreign policy on a broader scale than the Middle East. The South China Sea may be on the other side of the globe, but what happens there affects us all. Only one candidate knows what needs to be done.
Hillary Clinton released the following statement Wednesday about North Korea’s apparent nuclear test:
“I strongly condemn North Korea’s apparent nuclear test. If verified, this is a provocative and dangerous act, and North Korea must have no doubt that we will take whatever steps are necessary to defend ourselves and our treaty allies, South Korea and Japan. North Korea’s goal is to blackmail the world into easing the pressure on its rogue regime. We can’t give in to or in any way encourage this kind of bullying. Instead, we should increase pressure and send Pyongyang an unmistakable message that its nuclear brinksmanship won’t succeed.
“The United States and our partners, including the UN Security Council, need to immediately impose additional sanctions against North Korea. The Chinese government, which wields influence with the North Koreans, must be more assertive in deterring the North’s irresponsible actions, and it should take actions to halt prohibited activities transpiring across its borders or its firms that participate in illicit trade or proliferation will have to face sanctions. We should also work with our allies to strengthen our missile defenses.
“As Secretary I championed the United States’ pivot to the Asia Pacific – including shifting additional military assets to the theater – in part to confront threats like North Korea and to support our allies. I worked to get not just our allies but also Russia and China on board for the strongest sanctions yet.
“North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, its human rights record, the cyber hack of Sony this past December – highlight the continuing threat that North Korea poses.
“And threats like this are yet another reminder of what’s at stake in this election. We cannot afford reckless, imprudent publicity stunts that risk war. We need a Commander-in-Chief with the experience and judgement to deal with a dangerous North Korea on Day One.”
It is not the first time a publication has approached the topic of a Hillary Clinton Doctrine. As early as 2009, when she began outlining what she called 21st Century Statecraft, a doctrine began to emerge. About halfway through her tenure, news sources began exploring the topic.
With her service at the State Department behind her and the likelihood of a general election campaign before her, Foreign Policy‘s James Traub offers a thorough analysis of her foreign policy positions and the effects they have rendered. This is a must-read! He begins with that speech I have referred to so often here, her Forum for the Future speech in Doha
For four years she was Obama’s loyal secretary of state. Her critics call her an interventionist, her admirers tough-minded. What kind of president will she be?
By James Traub
On Jan. 13, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave what turned out to be a remarkably prescient speech in Doha, Qatar. “The region’s foundations are sinking into the sand,” she warned. If you do not manage to “build a future that your young people will believe in,” she told the Arab heads of state in the audience, the status quo they had long defended would collapse. The very next day, Tunisia’s dictator was forced to flee the country. Almost two weeks later, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians thronged Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding that then-President Hosni Mubarak step down. Over the following week, Clinton and her colleagues in the Barack Obama administration engaged in an intense debate over how to respond to this astonishing turn of events. Should they side with the young people in the streets demanding an immediate end to the deadening hand of autocratic rule, or with the rulers whom Clinton had admonished, but who nevertheless represented a stable order underpinned by American power and diplomacy?
We have recently marked the 20th anniversary of the assassination of then Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, a good friend, a courageous warrior and a great statesman. This somber anniversary, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington on November 9, is an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bonds of friendship and unity between the people and governments of the United States and Israel.
The alliance between our two nations transcends politics. It is and should always be a commitment that unites us, not a wedge that divides us.
Ever since President Truman waited only 11 minutes to recognize the new nation of Israel in 1948, Americans have believed that Israel is more than a country — it’s a dream nurtured for generations and made real by men and women who refused to bow to the toughest odds.
Linking to the Op-Ed from GOP Anti-Hillary, Carly Fiorina, that CNN published today would give it unnecessary traffic. If you want to read it, you will have to search it out yourself.
A few months ago, Hillary wondered aloud what Republicans would be talking about on the campaign trail if she were not running. Some in the GOP pool have since learned. While they do take aim at Hillary, they also differentiate themselves from each other.
It is embarrassing that the only woman on their side of the aisle is demonstrating a campaign learning curve that looks like this _______ > or maybe this —–> . She persists in making Hillary Clinton her sole target. Her CNN essay also betrays a dismal lack of information about Hillary that she has stubbornly stuck to for months.
So, Carly, in response, here are some of Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments, per your request, along with a few refutations of your baseless statements. You will excuse the fact that some of these are recycled replies to past conservative attacks. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel simply because you happen not to have encountered the information.
“Flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.” Hillary never claimed flying was an accomplishment. Apparently you missed Hard Choices. Recommended reading!
“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. “Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.”
In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted.
Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women , youth, and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day.
Secretary Clinton’s descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use “smart power” to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world—one in which America remains the indispensable nation.
“Clinton thinks she is entitled to your vote. I am working hard to earn it….I started my career filing and answering the phones as a secretary in a nine-person real estate firm.” Hillary is working for every vote!
“I’m sure Democrats and the Clinton Machine will continue to use empty talking points and bumper sticker rhetoric against me….” Against you? No one is persecuting you. You have chosen to jump into the political arena. What happens there is that when you make statements and ask questions, the other side responds.
This originated in response to one of your opponents who tried to minimize Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments. It is no less valid in reply to you.
These are not bumper stickers or empty talking points. They are concrete accomplishments as were the Iran sanctions that she worked hard to achieve and that brought Iran to the negotiating table.
Preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a top U.S. Government priority and we remain deeply concerned about Iran’s nuclear intentions. The United States is committed to a dual-track policy of applying pressure in pursuit of constructive engagement, and a negotiated solution.
On June 9, 2011, the P5+1 countries (China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States) reaffirmed their concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and their commitment to a diplomatic solution in their statement to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors. Many other governments have also expressed serious concerns about the behavior and policies of the Iranian leadership and have urged Iran to change course and seek a path of negotiation. Yet, in the face of this unified international message, Iran has continued to violate its international obligations and disregard our attempts to start meaningful negotiations over its nuclear program.
For this reason, the United States is convinced that the international community must continue to increase and broaden the scope of pressures on Iran. We welcome steps such as the European Union’s designation of more than 100 entities and individuals last month and the improved implementation of sanctions against Iran that we are seeing around the world.
Perhaps the previous defenses mounted here did not place sufficient emphasis on the importance of the role these sanctions have played, the difficulty of the work involved in putting an international coalition together, and the power of a unified front in the face of Iranian obstinance. I have added it here in light of your declaration at the debate last Thursday that your would impose unilateral sanctions that, somehow in your world, would bring Iran to its knees. Yes, the audience loved it, but the naïvety of the comment, as well as the audience reaction, betrayed an abysmal ignorance of the business of foreign relations.
Clearly CNN assesses you as some manner of a contender in this fight, and that is why they allotted you a voice on their pages today. You need to know that running the executive branch of the world’s greatest super power takes more background and experience than one gains from running a tech corporation and getting fired from the job.
Criticize Hillary Clinton all you want. It is a general election cycle, after all. You will only cause Hillary’s supporters to continue to find reasons why she should lead and you should not. These reasons are hardly empty talking points. They are substantive and complex, and they do not fit on bumper stickers.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at the high school in Exeter, N.H., Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, where she announced her college affordability plan. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 67th secretary of state.
When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isn’t producing enough growth or shared prosperity — the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. It’s no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world.
In his new book, “World Order,” Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.
During the Cold War, America’s bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. Kissinger’s summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: “an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.”
Hillary begins this chapter by revisiting a speech she delivered in 2009 to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Burma signaling her determination to pursue renewed relations with that long-spurned country based on reforms.
Early on she clarifies that while the generals preferred the name Myanmar, she, in Hard Choices, would refer to the country as Burma. Except where State Department communiqués opted to use Myanmar, I have remained consistent with her choice – not a hard one – of Burma.
Those who contend that she never chose or pursued a signature issue or agenda as secretary of state (and then grudgingly admit that issues confronting women and girls was, OK, sort of a signature issue but a ‘soft’ one) would do well to remember this initiative very early in her tenure. The Pacific was the region to which the administration had pivoted, and Hillary chose to seek engagement with a country she hoped would eventually be able to lead its neighbors by example. Not a soft choice at all. A hard one. (But have it your way, chauvinistic burgher kings of foreign policy.)
A State Department memo warned traveling staff that three colors were to be avoided in Burma. One was white. Hillary states that these cultural issues are often addressed in memos prior to travel. She had a new white jacket that was exactly the right weight for the climate and hesitated, brought it along anyway, and upon landing the entire traveling party discovered that the memo had been inaccurate so she wore it when she first met Aung Sang Suu Kyi. As it turned out they were dressed exactly alike. Even the hair was the same. This first meeting took place at the chief U.S. diplomat’s residence in Rangoon.
I think this meeting warmed a lot of hearts.
This link has images from her visit to the new capital Nay Pyi Taw where President Thein Sein asked her for guidance in democratic governance and told her they had been watching The West Wing for background. You can also see her visit to the beautiful Shwedagon Pagoda here.
At this meeting and press availability on December 2, 2011 Hillary visited Suu Kyi’s home which had also been her prison. She brought gifts – a stack of books and a toy for the doggie. The woman who calls herself a ‘dog owner’ on Twitter is actually a doggie mom and knew how much the company of Suu Kyi’s dog’s must have meant to her during her long isolation. It was adorably thoughtful. Like Hillary and her staff, I, over the past weekend, watched the film The Lady. There in the movie, sure enough, was a sweet, faithful little dog.
Hillary ends this chapter with both Suu Kyi’s and her own cautions about being too optimistic too quickly. That is excellent advice. One must always remain vigilant. She does not mention this, but I shall. As she began, with Burma as a target on her ‘smart power’ agenda, so she ended. Just a few weeks before leaving the State Department, she issued this.
To me, this looks like a success that we should, as she warns, recognize with restraint, but a victory for her State Department nonetheless. There are bumps in the road ahead, to be sure, but those who say she accomplished little to nothing would do well to assess her diplomatic waltz with Burma. A door has opened. We have walked in thanks to Hillary and her hard-working staff.
The most crucial thing on Hillary’s agenda for May 2, 2012 was not reflected on her public schedule as released by the State Department. Nor was her first stop at the Wanhousi Temple.
A self-taught lawyer, activist, and hero of the people had, with her approval and instructions, been provided refuge at our Embassy Beijing, and blind and injured, stood to disrupt all negotiations at that year’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
Having made his way to the embassy despite his disability and the physical injuries incurred on his journey to Beijing, Chen Guangcheng had captured media attention and a great deal of American sympathy and Chinese faith. While Hillary believed and acted strongly from her heart that we needed to move on his behalf, his figure, in a few venues – our embassy and a Chinese hospital – threatened to hang between two great nations that were still performing a middle school fox trot.
In this chapter, Hillary recounts how she first hears of Chen’s plight prior to leaving for the very important U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, and made an executive decision to accept him at the embassy (and rescue him in order to do so).
There were a several bumps in that road. Hillary managed to pave them.
Hillary ends this chapter with some comments that, on first reading, appear meant to explain China and its way of thinking to the American reader. When I read it again, I thought it just as likely that she also embedded a message there for the Chinese by expressing that rather than wishing to contain China (the Chinese fear) the U.S. seeks cooperation with China for the common good.
As we know, Hard Choices has been effectively banned in China, but we hope that embedded message manages to get through the Great Firewall.
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