I’ve been a morsel disinclined to bound into the mini-controversy over the pending appointment of Christopher Hill for Ambassador to Iraq. My son was Hill’s private acolyte during portion of his tenure as Assistant Secretary of State. But I’ve been admirer of Hill’s since I premier met him behind in the 1990s, while he was aiding Richard Holbrooke on the Bosnia negotiations and I would have been dissatisfied in John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Sam Brownback because their transparently political opposition to the Hill appointment in any case.
But enough almost me. Hillary Clinton makes the case for Hill eloquently during this recent press conference:
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, how do you react to criticism from Senators McCain and Graham and Brownback that Chris Hill is – does not have the experience required to become ambassador in Baghdad? He doesn’t have the experience in the Arab countries. And they too profess that he doesn’t have the negotiating skills necessary, and they point to the recent deadlock in the negotiations with North Korea as one example.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, obviously, I think either of those reproofs are unjustified and unfounded. Chris Hill is a discriminated, experienced diplomat who has served in some very difficult locations on benefit of our country. Another very discriminated, experienced diplomat,
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With adore to the North Korean mission that we believe Ambassador Hill carried out with magnificent persistence and success despite some difficult challenges, this is a hard set of challenges to meet. And it is our outlook that he made a lot of lemonade out of some pretty wrong lemons, and he was able to get the North Koreans on disc as agreeing to certain obligations. We immediately have to emulate via on those obligations.
So our appraisal, which we believe namely rooted in the facts, may be assorted from those who,
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