2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can we just be honest about why Hillary even got to be SOS... [View all]karynnj
(59,521 posts)She opted to head her husband's effort on health care in the US and to head his efforts to improve education in Arkansas. It is true that she did visit many countries and that that helped the US, but she was not involved in any negotiations on anything. She never asked for a security clearance.
When she went to the Senate, she did not join the SFRC, she joined the Health, Edication, Labor and Pensions committee and the Armed Services committee. As President, she would have relied on her national security team including her SoS. As SoS, look at how the job was condtructed. Mitchell was handling Israel, Holbrooke was handling Afghanistan/Pakistan/India and Biden was handling Iraq. Obviously, with Obama getting the last word. HRC ran the state department and made many many visits to allies, big and small.
She was also a member of Obama's national security team, where she used her articulateness, authority and presence to push for more hawkish positions.