Hillary's One Foreign Policy Faux Pas - or Seven

This morning I learned the details (thanks to  TocqueDeville http://www.dailykos.com/... ) surrounding Obama's Nafta gaffe...oh, but wait, that was Hillary's Nafta gaffe.  How did I not know that?  How does the world not know that?  You mean to tell me it was Hillary's camp that reassured the Canadian government that her comments were simply campaign rhetoric and should not concern them?  You mean to tell me the the story was intentionally flipped on Obama and Hillary used it as fodder for her "outrage" with his "just words" campaign?  (If you have not read this diary yet, you really really should!)

Couple that with her suggestion that we could "obliterate" Iran (and please ignore the fact that she accused Obama of poor foreign policy and warmongering when he suggested that if Pakistan didn't act, that he would - turning that into "Obama said he'd bomb Pakistan" during a debate).

Let's add five more reported by Newsweek (over the jump)...

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/...

On the eve of Pennsylvania's primary, my NEWSWEEK colleague Karen Breslau boldly--or foolishly--prodded the former First Lady for a favorite joke. Clinton's response? "Here's a good one," she said. "Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand: her opponents have observed that in the event of a nuclear war, the two things that will emerge from the rubble are the cockroaches and Helen Clark." While only barely qualifying as a joke--usually these are funny--Clinton's quip did pass muster as something slightly less mirthful: a diplomatic gaffe. It wasn't so much comparing a former prime minister to an indestructible arthropod that sent the New Zealand press into a tizzy after Karen's interview appeared in this week's mag. It was the fact that Helen Clark is still, you know, the prime minister of New Zealand.

or this one

At an event in Hampton, N.H. on Jan. 7, she mocked George W. Bush's famous line about "looking into [Vladimir] Putin's" soul with a sparkling zinger of her own: "He was a KGB agent. By definition he doesn't have a soul." (Insert rimshot here.) Unfortunately, Putin wasn't pleased.  "At a minimum," he later said, "a head of state should have a head." So much for our Russian relations!

how about this one

Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, whom she twice suggested may have ordered Benazir Bhutto's assassination. "We... expect that responsible leaders and public figures in the US would refrain from making statements that are likely to be distorted and misused and could further upset the people, who are still in a state of shock," said Pakistan's Foreign Ministry at the time; the New York senator quickly followed up with an elementary error about Pakistani politics.

they keep coming

she's stumbled when asked the name of Putin's successor, Demetri Medvedev ("Meh, um, Me-ned-vadah. Whatever.")

and finally

embarrassed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown by wrongly praising him for boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics

This is how we plan on mending our reputation abroad?  Really?  Hunter once wrote a fantastic and funny article called Foreign Policy as Practiced by Seven Year Old Children (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/10/72338/0002/129/493110) speaking of the Bush administration.  After an honest assessment, do you really think Mrs. Clinton's administration would be much different?  She has, after all, already resorted to name calling and bullying.