Making a rare appearance since losing the presidential election, Hillary Clinton offered a lesson on the merits of diplomacy, which she said are now “more vital and urgent than ever.”
Clinton delivered a speech Tuesday evening at the State Department’s Diplomacy Center, appearing alongside fellow former secretaries of state Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright, where a section is being partly named after her. Secretary of State John Kerry was also in attendance.
“Diplomacy is one of the greatest forces for peace and prosperity and progress the world has ever known,” Clinton said, according to CNN political producer Dan Merica.
In what may be a thinly veiled shot at her Republican rival who bested her in the election, President-elect Trump, Clinton said, “today, the lessons of this museum are more vital and urgent than ever.”
“Democracy, freedom and the rule of law are under attack around the world,” Clinton added. “A rising tide of authoritarian and illiberalism threatens that foundation of the post WWII global era that American diplomats have built and defending since Marshall and Acheson.”
Clinton said it is the United States’ “universal values and aspirations,” that makes it “indispensable,” not the country’s military might or economy.
