Con Coughlin

Whatever happened to Hillary?

Wherever you look on the world stage, there is one notable absentee, says Con Coughlin. Has Mrs Clinton finally relinquished her political ambitions?

issue 10 October 2009

What’s become of Hillary Clinton? At times of international crisis — and boy, do we have a few — it is customary for the American Secretary of State to take centre stage and work the phones until the early hours sorting out the latest threat to global security.

Remember the legwork that James Baker put in to build a multinational coalition to boot out Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1990? Or the air miles Madame Secretary Albright clocked up in her attempts to bring the tiresome Serb dictator Slobodan Milosevic to heel during the Bosnian civil war? Even Condoleezza Rice...

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