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Foreign Policy + Secretary of State = Policy of the State

—via unburyingthelead:

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:  Victims of drone attacks - is that terrorism?

Or people being killed in a marketplace in Peshawar - is that terrorism?

In the United States, do you perceive both victims as acts of terrorism?

CLINTON:  No, I do not.  I do not.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:  United Nations committee has just ruled or suggested that drone attacks may constitute a violation of international law and it constitutes the execution of people without a trial.

And Pakistan‘s Parliament, of course, has also requested that these drone attacks be stopped, yet they continue and Pakistani people have begun to resent them and associate them with U.S. policy towards Pakistan as a whole.

(APPLAUSE)

CLINTON:  Well, you know, I think what‘s important here is that there is a war going on, as several of you have said.  And I won‘t comment on that specific matter.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:  They have been relentless under the Obama administration.  Do you think and does the Obama administration feel that the loss of life and how people feel about them in Pakistan is worth it, given the minimal successes you get?

CLINTON:  Again, I‘m not going to comment on any particular tactic or technology.