The Hill News

  On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to the "Historical Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia" in Washington.  The focus was the Vietnam War, with State Department historians having completed, in the Secretary's words, "an exhaustive history of United States policy regarding Southeast Asia from 1946 until 1975," when Saigon fell.  Especially with the Vietnamese Ambassador in the audience, our top diplomat had an obligation to raise human rights concerns, however diplomatically.  The Secretary struck out. 

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