Hillarysworld

I don't care for this "tough as any man" language, but I'm glad WikiLeaks hasn't hurt Hillary. Quite the opposite, in fact...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/9/hillarys-unexpected-good-fortune/
There are villains aplenty in the WikiLeaks scandal, but nobody looks better for it than Hillary Clinton. The purloined State Department cables show the secretary of state to be eager and willing to man up to both the nation's enemies and its faithless "allies" in the Middle East.

She emerges in the confidential cable traffic as tough as any man, eager to deal with the Saudis as the unreliable ally they pretend not to be. In one signed memorandum she calls Saudi Arabia the largest source of money for Islamist terror gangs.

"More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist groups," she says. She tells her diplomats to get to work to stop the flow of money from the Gulf to terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan, to get crucial cell phone and credit card numbers. "Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide." She identifies Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates as other sources of terror financing, and cites Qatar as the worst offender.

This is the kind of tough talk that diplomats never use in public - many of them don't know how to talk this tough even in private - and the secretary of state was as abashed as anyone in official Washington with the WikiLeaks disclosures. Diplomats must be able to speak freely to each other and to the home office without eavesdroppers. Nevertheless, embarrassing or not, the cable traffic reveals Mrs. Clinton as one of the toughest people in an administration of softies. But she clearly doesn't want to go back to the future.

I snipped out a lot of sexist, right-wing stuff from this article. But if you want to read it, go ahead and click the link.