NYT best-selling author: Hillary offered $17 million to fight rape in Congo...but hey, she got mad!

[Becky72]

August 12, 2009, 10:14 PM
Hillary Fights a Tide of Trivialization
Washington

This was supposed to be the trip that would show exactly how Hillary Rodham Clinton would make good on her pledge, at her confirmation hearing for secretary of state, to make women’s issues “central” to U.S. foreign policy, not “adjunct or auxiliary or in any way lesser.”

There could have been no more dramatic setting: Overruling the security fears of her aides, she traveled to eastern Congo, where hundreds of thousands of women have been raped over the past decade. She visited a refugee camp and met with one woman who was gang-raped while eight months pregnant; she heard of another who’d been sexually assaulted with a rifle. She was told of babies cut from their mothers’ bodies with razors. She spoke of “evil in its basest form.” She promised $17 million to fight sexual violence.

And back home, all anyone could talk about was Bill.

Had he upstaged her with his trip to North Korea? Had he dogged her, in absentia, all the way to Kinshasa, where a university student, wondering about “Mr. Clinton’s” views, set her off, and set the world cluck-clucking, once again, about her marriage, her temperament, even her hair?

MOre: http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/hillary-fights-a-tide-of-trivialization/?hp

[Eric J in MN]

1. A woman asked an annoying question was annoyed.

God forbid (sarcasm).

[aquart]

2. Nothing scarier than female anger.