In an interview with ABC-TV on Monday, Secretary of State Clinton said about North Korea's recent behavior, "Maybe it's the mother in me, the experience I've had with small children and teenagers and people who are demanding attention: Don't give it to them."
While I personally agree with the US low-key response and the Secretary's basic views about North Korea, I am just a bit bothered that she would utter such words for the world to hear as the top US diplomat (not as a private citizen). It's just bad form for a diplomat, I think.
Don't get me wrong. I would like nothing more than smack the pesky North Korea upside the head a few times and tell it, "knock it off and grow up," but that's my personal belief, and not something I would say in public as an official representative of the US.
Now, I am going to go as far as to say that Secretary of State Clinton's statement would have been perfectly fine if she were still a US Senator...after all, making statements like that is something Senators do...almost in their job description, I think. Perhaps the Secretary has not had long enough time in her current position to make the complete switch...or perhaps she doesn't get that diplomats are supposed to be the soft spoken ones that make everything better and palatable for everyone...or perhaps she still believes she has a shot at the highest office of the land.
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