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===Foreign Policy===
===Foreign Policy===
====Libyan War and the Benghazi attack====
:''See also [[Libyan War]] and [[Benghazi attack]]''
Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Clinton: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the [[United Arab Emirates]] for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Libya. She was a skeptic on whether the United States should take military action in Libya (It is said that that day (March 14) she met in Paris with members of the Libyan rebels committee and [[Bernard Henri Levy]]). Mrs. Clinton changed course, forming an unlikely alliance with a handful of top administration aides who had been arguing for intervention. Within hours, Mrs. Clinton and the aides had convinced Mr. Obama that the United States had to act, and the president ordered up military plans, which Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hand-delivered to the White House the next day. On Thursday (March 17), during an hour-and-a -half meeting, Mr. Obama signed off on allowing American pilots to join Europeans and Arabs in military strikes against the Libyan government... The president had a caveat, though. The American involvement in military action in Libya should be limited — no ground troops — and finite. “Days, not weeks,” a senior White House official recalled him saying. [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19policy.html?_r=2&hp]
On March 17, in Tunisia, Hillary said: ''"Gadhafi must go," calling him "a ruthless dictator that has no conscience and will destroy anyone or anything in his way." "If Gadhafi does not go, he will just make trouble," she said. "That is just his nature. There are some creatures that are like that."'' [http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/17/hillary-clinton-in-tunisia-need-plan-for-economic-development/]
In joining Ms. Susan Rice and Ms. Samantha Power, Mrs. Clinton made an unusual break with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, who, along with the national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, and the counterterrorism chief, John O. Brennan, had urged caution. Libya was not vital to American national security interests, the men argued, and Mr. Brennan worried that the Libyan rebels remained largely unknown to American officials, and could have ties to Al Qaeda. [[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19policy.html?_r=2&hp]]
And later:
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“We are currently doing everything we can to bomb, strafe and use missiles to carry the rebels into power in Libya. We want them to win. We just don’t know who they are.” Hillary Rodham Clinton. [http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/06/23/hillary-clinton-to-libya-skeptics-whose-side-are-you-on/]
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Gadhafi was brutally sodomized and murdered by forces backed by Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration.<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20123348-503544/clinton-on-qaddafi-we-came-we-saw-he-died/</ref>
On September 11, 2012, the anniversary of the [[9/11 terror attacks]], Islamist terrroists attacked the American embassy and killed four people. In testimony before Congress on January the 23th, 2013 Clinton was asked why the [[Obama administration]] deliberately put out false information about the attack just prior to the [[Presidential Election of 2012]], Clinton screamed at Senators, "WHAT DIFFERANCE DOES IT MAKE?".<ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/23/senator-calls-for-top-to-bottom-review-state-department-ahead-clinton-testimony/</ref>
====East Asia====
====East Asia====
Clinton's first major foreign visits were toChina [[China]], where she tried to maintain the status quo, with China buying American treasury notes to finance the U.S. deficit.
Clinton's first major foreign visits were to[[China]], where she tried to maintain the status quo, with China buying American treasury notes to finance the U.S. deficit.
She told [[Japan[[ that the US-Japan alliance is a “cornerstone” of American foreign policy. She met publicly with Yukio Hatoyama, the opposition leader, who won a landslide election in Sept, 2009. The question is whether the new government will continue to follow a strongly pro-American foreign policy regarding economic affairs, [[North Korea]], and the issue of 47,000 troops American troops stationed there. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in his electioncampaign vowed to review a 2006 agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Base from an urban to a coastal part of the southern island of Okinawa. The base has angered residents because of aircraft noise and friction with U.S. servicemen; while in opposition Hatoyama suggested it could be moved off the island altogether, a move Washington has strongly opposed.
She told [[Japan[[ that the US-Japan alliance is a “cornerstone” of American foreign policy. She met publicly with Yukio Hatoyama, the opposition leader, who won a landslide election in Sept, 2009. The question is whether the new government will continue to follow a strongly pro-American foreign policy regarding economic affairs, [[North Korea]], and the issue of 47,000 troops American troops stationed there. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in his electioncampaign vowed to review a 2006 agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Base from an urban to a coastal part of the southern island of Okinawa. The base has angered residents because of aircraft noise and friction with U.S. servicemen; while in opposition Hatoyama suggested it could be moved off the island altogether, a move Washington has strongly opposed.
Once again, Clinton's failure as Secretary of State comes into question as [[John Kerry]] plans a visit to [[Iran]], which Iran rejected. <ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126161465189603571.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us Kerry Floats Plan to Visit Tehran, Wall Street Journal. December 24, 2009]</ref> Kerry's name has been mentioned as the replacement of Hillary Clinton for the foreign policy arm of the [[Obama administration]]. <ref>[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091022_Kerry_plays_key_role_for_the_president.html Kerry plays key role for the president, Philly.com, October 22, 2009]</ref>
Once again, Clinton's failure as Secretary of State comes into question as [[John Kerry]] plans a visit to [[Iran]], which Iran rejected. <ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126161465189603571.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us Kerry Floats Plan to Visit Tehran, Wall Street Journal. December 24, 2009]</ref> Kerry's name has been mentioned as the replacement of Hillary Clinton for the foreign policy arm of the [[Obama administration]]. <ref>[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091022_Kerry_plays_key_role_for_the_president.html Kerry plays key role for the president, Philly.com, October 22, 2009]</ref>
====South America====
====South America====