Marcella Bombardieri of the
Boston Globe has described Clinton
"telling and retelling
one particularly moving story about bringing together Catholic
and Protestant women in Northern Ireland ...
"Clinton said she had
hosted a meeting of enemies in the conflict. They had never been
in the same room before, and 'no one thought this was going to
be a very good idea.'"
The 560-page Living History
does include a description of an occasion in a community facility
in Belfast to which she had been invited, attended by women community
activists well known to one another, who had regularly been in
the same room together. The meeting had been organized by the
Northern Ireland Office.
It is a nicely-structured,
detailed story which has come to form part of her standard campaign
presentation.
her Northern Ireland story
speaks to the larger issue of whether her travels around the
world as first lady qualify as serious diplomacy
a crucial element of her argument that she is the most qualified
clipped from: www.counterpunch.org