Can Clinton remake U.S. diplomacy?

Washington - On Sunday morning, at the end of January, Hillary Clinton entered the Foreign Ministry.Secretary of State had already spent most of Saturday on the phone with the White House about the breakup situation in Egypt.Now, after endless discussions, it was ready to be the face of network administration to speak five shows Sunday.On one show after another, she gave the new mantra - the United States wanted an orderly transition." Sentence has been carefully designed to have recognized the importance of the transition to democracy in Egypt, but taking into account the need to avoid chaos and power vacuum that could lead to power a radical Islamist movement, as it did during the revolution Iran, 1979.After the interviews, was out of Andrews Air Force Base closed plane to Haiti. The country was in a disputed presidential election threatened to stall its recovery from the earthquake a year ago.

It 'clear that the events in Egypt, to cancel the trip would have been understandable. But Clinton had already been postponed trip to Port-au-Prince months before and was eager to show support of the Haitian people and the press by President Rene Preval to accept election observers concluded that the people of his candidate does not meet its future runoff.Clinton phones work throughout the race down to Haiti, talks about Defense Secretary Robert Gates, CIA director Leon Panetta, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, among other things about Egypt.Between the fall of the cholera treatment center, visiting with the presidential candidates, and the meeting of Preval, Clinton was on the phone Donilon, get updated on the latest information from the U.S. embassy in Egypt. All the while, his collaborators were working the phones in Washington, in his briefing between meetings.Throughout the return flight, glided Clinton's senior aides, chopping both an immediate strategy to deal with Egypt and the potential fallout in the entire region.

It 'been a deposition that he had announced only two weeks earlier. In a dramatic speech in Qatar, Clinton warned the leaders of the Arab regimes to "sink in the sand", if not the reform of the autocratic governments and create opportunities for young people.Two days after that speech, fled Tunisia, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the country after being overthrown in the midst of massive protests. Inspired, the Egyptians have begun similar events. However, thought the U.S. potential drop Hosni Mubarak - a key ally for 30 years has been a pillar of security in the Middle East - which will greatly affect the overall policy of America in the region in the years come."There were a couple of early moments of surprise and then said:" We will have to dive, "said Cheryl Mills, Clinton adviser and chief of staff.