Tag: secretary of state  On Benghazi, the Buck Stops with
Hillary      Susan Rice and the Interventionist Caucus  The
Associated Press is reporting that Susan Rice, “appears to have
a clearer path to succeeding retiring Secretary of State Hilary
Rodham Clinton” now that John McCain and Lindsey Graham have
softened their opposition to her candidacy. “If she is nominated
for the position,” the AP’s Steven Hurst predicted, ”it may
signal greater U.S. willingness to intervene in world crises
during Obama’s second term.”  Bill Kristol believes that it
would, which is why he supports Rice over other qualified
candidates, including especially John Kerry (D-MA). Asked on
FoxNews Sunday why he prefers Rice over Kerry, Kristol said:
“Because I think Susan Rice has been a little more
interventionist than John Kerry…. John Kerry has been against
our intervening in every war that we intervened.”  That isn’t
entirely true, of course. For example, Kristol noted that Kerry
“was for [the second Iraq war] before he was agains