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In reply to the discussion: So did US drones really kill 60 plus people in Yemen? [View all]Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)The destruction of Libya is her legacy. The ethnic cleansing of Black Libyans, the de-emancipation of women, a government that adopts sharia, years later the country is still at war and failing.
Hillary Clinton Struggles to Define a Legacy in Progress
It was a simple question to someone accustomed to much tougher ones: What was her proudest achievement as secretary of state? But for a moment, Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing recently before a friendly audience at a womens forum in Manhattan, seemed flustered.
Mrs. Clinton played an energetic role in virtually every foreign policy issue of President Obamas first term, advocating generally hawkish views internally while using her celebrity to try to restore Americas global standing after the hit it took during the George W. Bush administration.
But her halting answer suggests a problem that Mrs. Clinton could confront as she recounts her record in Mr. Obamas cabinet before a possible run for president in 2016: Much of what she labored over so conscientiously is either unfinished business or has gone awry in his second term.
From Russias aggression in Ukraine and the grinding civil war in Syria to the latest impasse in the Middle East peace process, the turbulent world has frustrated Mr. Obama, and is now defying Mrs. Clintons attempts to articulate a tangible diplomatic legacy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/us/politics/unfinished-business-complicates-clintons-diplomatic-legacy.html?_r=0