5 secretaries of State advise Hillary Clinton

Los Angeles Times by Marjorie Miller | Dec. 7, 2008 (Opinion)

Hillary Rodham Clinton will have no shortage of issues to take on as secretary of State. She steps into the job amid a global economic meltdown and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On top of that, she must address the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while managing complex relations with Russia and China. And there are the perennial issues of hunger and disease in Africa, drugs in Latin America and the ... Full Story »

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by James Canning - Dec. 7, 2008

Good summary of advice by five of Hillary Clinton's predecessors as to what and how to do the job. James Baker says go right at the Israel/Palestine problem and not to make the mistake Bill Clinton and G W Bush made, of waiting until late in their second terms to get serious.

A agree with Baker. The intense dislike of the US on the part of so many hundreds and hundreds of millions of people around the world owes a great deal to the perception, quite correct, that the US enables Israel to oppress the Palestinians, decade after decade after decade.