By Patrick
Crowley looks at Hitchens’ article:
One reading–for those who don’t trust Hillary’s book–is that she always saw Bosnia as a merely political issue. She didn’t want action in 1993 when it threatened her health care plan, but she did want it in 1995 when Bill risked looking weak.
The other reading would be that Hillary truly was moved by Elie Wiesel in 1993 and privately quietly cajoled Bill to act, but to no avail. Bedell Smith’s account of her resistance to a more hawkish policy is apparently based on a single source, a May 1993 Newsweek account which contained one quote from a Hillary "friend" who is not identified. That hardly seems like definitive evidence that Hillary is lying. That said, much like Hillary’s claim to have urged Bill to stop the genocide in Rwanda, there is no clear evidence suggesting she actually did so.
Verdict: Inconclusive–but suspicious…
The Dish 