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Buried within Joe Klein’s new Time profile (great first line, by the way) of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton:
The Israelis have been difficult, as always: whenever [Special Envoy George] Mitchell raises East Jerusalem in talks with the Israeli Foreign Minister, the Israeli stands up and walks out of the room.
Is there any cost to [...]

So, what was at Iran’s nuclear facility at Qom, anyway?
U.N. inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday.

If this came in any other context except the aftermath of a dispiriting, fraud-filled election, this statement from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a mundane discussion of how U.S. interests in a given country have to go beyond a dialogue with that country’s leaders. But since we’re talking about Afghanistan and the [...]

In an interview with Pakistan’s Dawn-TV, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out some goals for her trip this week to Pakistan. “I talk about people-to-people diplomacy,” she said, “because for me, being Secretary of State is not just going somewhere and sitting in a government office or a conference room talking across the [...]

Barely an hour after word came from Vienna that an Iranian negotiating team has accepted a draft version of a deal to ship nuclear fuel out of the country for enrichment, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech this morning at Washington’s tony Mayflower hotel on nuclear nonproliferation, a core Obama administration priority. [...]

That was quite an image, seeing Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai announce that he’ll accept a runoff election. Well, not just that, but seeing him flanked by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who stopped in Kabul during a trip to Pakistan to discuss his reviled aid bill. Kerry, it’s [...]

Just released, from the Secretary of State:

Afghanistan has been through a rough and contentious election. The bravery, patience, and resilience of the Afghan people has been on display since election day, when so many of them went to the polls in the face of threats and intimidation. And after many weeks of counting ballots and [...]

Ok, so this will probably still mean a prolonged period of indecision as regards a U.S. troop increase, but The New York Times has a great and very detailed piece indicating that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is backing away from his refusal to accept a runoff in the stolen election.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Obama strategy review for Afghanistan is considering middle paths for the eight-year war — something along the lines of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency strategy, but more restricted to major population areas and prioritized missions, with, accordingly, a smaller troop increase than McChrystal may prefer. And that’s to be [...]

President Obama convenes the national security team for another debate on Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy, and I notice an addition to the guest list is Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew. Lew is the deputy in charge of management and personnel for Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, so perhaps part of today’s session will include an assessment of [...]