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[Divernan]

108. You know people who brag about visiting "x" number of states? or countries?

Dashing around Europe on some rushed tour: "See 10 countries in 2 weeks!"

Hillary Clinton's Fly By Diplomacy - quantity over quality - WAY over.

Madeleine Albright visited 96 countries in 4 years; Condoleeza Rice went to 85 countries in her 4 years. But Clinton went to 112! Golly Gumdrops! That must make her the best Secretary of State ever!

Hill has counted countries where her plane stopped for an hour and she met some local officials in the airport before taking off again. She'd go on multi-country "listening tours". It has been described as "Obama got what he wanted - Hillary out of town, and Clinton got what she wanted - endless media exposure in anticipation of another run for the presidency."

She'd find an excuse of giving a speech or receiving an award to check another country off of her bucket list. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-most-traveled-secretary-of-state-in-us-history/

Three countries in 72 hours???? "Clinton will visit three countries in about 72 hours, including Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea." http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/75361-democratic-lawmaker-condemns-clintons-fly-by-diplomacy

Then there was her 7 nation, 12 day tour of Africa! Kenya, South Africa, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Liberia, and Cape Verde. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111547358

Analysts also point to the lack of a landmark achievement that bears her name -- something on the scale of Henry Kissinger's work on detente or George Marshall's theory of containment -- or a breakthrough on a major international problem during her time on the job.

Many in Washington's foreign policy community say she leaves behind a legacy that is very good, but not extraordinary.

Michael O'Hanlon, the director of foreign-policy research at the Brookings Institution, puts Clinton one notch below history's most memorable secretaries of state.

Aaron David Miller, a U.S. foreign-policy expert at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center, says the White House rarely gave Clinton the reins on "big-think strategy.” He says special envoys appointed by the president, like the late Richard Holbrooke, who worked on Afghanistan and Pakistan, sometimes overshadowed Clinton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/weekinreview/16gettleman.html?_r=0

http://www.rferl.org/content/clinton-stepping-down/24890148.html