Long Engagements

The New Yorker’s George Packer comments on Hillary Clinton’s departure from the State Department “after four exhausting years.” Due to the turmoil America faced when President Obama first came into office, Clinton was forced to regain America’s global respect. The limitations of the situation as well as the limitations of Obama’s foreign policy kept Clinton from becoming “a truly great Secretary of State—another George C. Marshall or Dean Acheson.” 

Read at The New Yorker

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