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...years after his 1992 disappointment badgered and cajoled the warring parties in Bosnia into a peace deal few had thought possible, has the more finely tuned short-range political ear of the two. In a late-December conference call following former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto's assassination, some Clinton policy aides argued for a soft line on President Pervez Musharraf. Holbrooke countered that Clinton should not just slam Musharraf for dictatorial tendencies but also attack George W. Bush for being gullible in trusting the Pakistani leader as much as he had. Holbrooke "was making the point that this...
...struggle is all the more fierce because Obama and Clinton are not terribly far apart in their foreign policy approaches. For all the shouting over Iraq, both Democrats propose a limited and ultimately hard-to-deliver drawdown of U.S. troops there. Both want to talk with America's enemies--give or take a few crazy heads of state--and both want to boost foreign aid to win back goodwill around the globe. "You've got a split in a tribe of like-minded people," says Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution. But if Democrats have none of the deep...
...CNN/YouTube debate last July, for example, Obama said he would meet with leaders like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korea's Kim Jong Il without conditions in his first year as President, a promise one senior adviser admits was unplanned and unvetted by staff. Clinton pounced, declaring she would be more careful about whom she met--"I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes"--and later calling Obama's answer "irresponsible and frankly naive...
...keen a political ear in a candidate, though, can be a liability, since it can keep him or her from hearing anything else--like the facts. Clinton's biggest error so far has been bending events to bolster her credentials, as with her exaggeration of the danger she faced on a 1996 trip to Bosnia. Moreover, several of her advisers complain that she has been late to embrace big foreign policy ideas. When I asked if Clinton had tackled the question of foreign assistance as a tool of counterterrorism, for example, an adviser said some aides keep trying to "push...
Lake's and Holbrooke's key roles notwithstanding, each Democratic candidate has a deep foreign policy team. Obama's advisers include three former Clinton Administration appointees: Greg Craig, who headed the State Department's in-house think tank from 1997 to '98; Richard Danzig, a former Navy Secretary; and Susan Rice, an expert on terrorism and Africa. Clinton's roster features former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark and Craig's former deputy Lee Feinstein...