I hope that she is the right choice. Bill's dealings and contributors to his vast holdings should be put out of business. They certainly will influence her decisions on world policies, should they arise. He will no doubt be putting a bug in her ear if they concern his businesses. He has been dealing with these people for a long time, and she knew everything he was doing all along, and never did anything to stop him, so how is she going to be impartial to all he is doing? I think that the congress should put a stop to all his dealings and then maybe she would be the right choice.
Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary Of State Nominee
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In February 2008, Clinton praised the compromise reached between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, but warned that the agreement is "a very fragile step forward." The United States must "continue to work closely with Kofi Annan, the African Union, and other international partners to ensure compliance with the agreement," she said.
Domestic Intelligence
Clinton criticized National Security Agency surveillance of U.S. citizens, saying the Bush administration should have gone through Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provisions if they wanted to eavesdrop on domestic communications. Clinton voted against Michael Hayden's confirmation as CIA director.
Clinton has spoken against granting blanket retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies involved in domestic spying, saying it "undermines accountability." She opposed the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 but was not present to vote against the bill in February 2008.
Afghanistan
Clinton's team focused on addressing Islamic fundamentalism, making Afghanistan and Pakistan the major front with al-Qaeda, and preventing nuclear proliferation. The war in Iraq is "diverting attention and resources" from Afghanistan, Clinton wrote in a November 2007 Foreign Affairs essay. In May 2008, Clinton pressed Gen. David Petraeus to "refocus" U.S. military efforts on Afghanistan. "[I]f the U.S. is going to suffer another attack on our own soil, it will most certainly originate from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region," she said in a May 2008 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
In March 2008, Clinton released a plan for what she called the "forgotten front line" in Afghanistan. The plan included a larger role for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and U.S. allies in Afghanistan, and it said she would ask countries unable to sent troops to "instead increase assistance" to Afghanistan. Clinton also said she would seek "adequate funds" to bolster the Afghan National Army and police force. She planned to "make it a priority that the Afghans receive modern weapons and airlift capabilities to win their war, not hand me downs left over from the Cold War." Clinton also said she would appoint a special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan "to develop a regional strategy to defeat the Taliban and [al-Qaeda]."
Clinton said the main priority in the war on terror should be in preventing "Iran, al-Qaeda and the like" from obtaining weapons of mass destruction. When the Jewish Press asked Clinton in October 2006 how she views the war on terror, she responded, "I don't think our strategy is working. Six years ago, North Korea and Iran were not as close as they are today to having nuclear weapons."
Democracy Promotion in the Arab World
Clinton said she supports efforts to promote democracy in the Middle East. "We want to continue to export democracy, but we want to deliver it in digestible steps," she said in reference to Iraq in a January 2007 interview with the New Yorker. Clinton has also criticized the Bush administration's democracy promotion efforts; at a speech given at CFR in 2006, she said "we've done a good job talking about democracy, but we sure haven't done a comparable good job in promoting the long-term efforts that actually build institutions after the elections are over and the international monitors have gone home."
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