Hillary's Homerun of a Speech

[kpete]

Hillary's Homerun of a Speech

by Tunku Varadarajan Info
Tunku Varadarajan

The secretary of State delivered the best speech of the Obama administration this morning. Tunku Varadarajan on her “new American moment”—and why she’s better than her boss.

Behold the Hillary Doctrine. And heap abundant gratitude—and rose petals if you have them on hand—on the firm, unfussy, deeply reassuring woman who has just offered it up to the world.

In the 20 months since this administration began administering (a verb I use only in the loosest sense), the speech Wednesday morning by Hillary Clinton, delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations, was the first time we have been given an unreserved lift of the heart by any of its members. It was, by far, the best speech of this administration. Whereas her president has frequently wrung his elegant hands, doing the rounds of the world to reassure foreign leaders that America is a cuddly bunny at heart, the secretary of State declared Wednesday that we are all living “a new American moment—a moment when our global leadership is essential.” There was no bowing from her to potentates in robes; there was, instead, a promise that “we will do everything we can to exercise the traditions of American leadership at home and abroad.”
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Try this for size: “The United States can, must and will lead in the new century.” In order to do that, Clinton promised “a new global architecture,” “built to last and withstand stress.” And in a muscular departure from the way in which this administration—for fear of seeming Bush-like—has been shrinking from the unembarrassed propagation of American values, she uttered these plainspoken, unadorned words: “Democracy needs defending.”

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In her speech, Clinton referred to the sources of “American might.” The first, of course, is “economic power.” But it is her hailing of the second—America’s “moral authority”—that was so invigorating.

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more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-08/hillary-clinton-foreign-policy-speech-better-than-obama/?cid=hp:mainpromo1

[mike_c]

1. this exemplifies the worst aspects of U.S. foreign policy, IMO....

Manifest destiny and all that tripe. Ugh. Not in my name.

[gratuitous]

2. America has "moral authority"? Who knew?

I thought we kinda flushed that away, you know, what with the invasions, extralegal detentions, the torture, the blanket reprisals against civilian populations and illegal occupations. But I guess as long as we're willing to let bygones be bygone, we're perfectly justified in projecting American might. First, of course, is economic power. But if the world isn't willing to give up its treasure to us, we have other methods of extracting it, and we're clearly not afraid to use those methods (see the first sentence of this paragraph).

Whatever America has been defending in the last decade, it sure as hell hasn't been democracy.

[Myrina]

4. You hit the nail on the head.

:applause: Well said.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Hillary has mastered Neo-Liberalese. Or, "picking up the White-Man" burden" redux.

[AtomicKitten]

5. America abdicated moral authority with the failure to prosecute the BushCo war criminals.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Her speech? I think of it as if she was a member of the CFR who is giving a speech to her bosses.

From a short Wikipedia page on the author, Varadarajan.

Tunku Varadarajan is a Professor of business at New York University and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution

She is a member guest of the CFR, correct?

What she said - is what the CFR is about and they are about one world order - they are 'the get things done unit' of the Bilderberger Group,

She just fnished a 'harvesting' speech for the one world order. The planting was done many years ago. Hillary fans, sorry if this hurts. As we are always saying - the truth hurts.

I have had people telling me this is where we were headed with the one world order agenda. I guess it took me three decades to affirm what I was told.

Assmption: many people want us to believe that we are the 'might' of the world. We know what that means - perpetual war and skirmishes. Because we have so many naturalized and native born soldiers and mercenaries and believers in war. Best industry in the world for fast profits for a few.