Hillary Clintons artikkel " Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first Century " i Foreign Affairs, leses her . Den er veldig grei lesning, og oppsummerer vel kort USAs unilaterale utanrikspolitiske kurs siste åra: "The tragedy of the last six years is that the Bush administration has squandered the respect, trust, and confidence of even our closest allies and friends." H. Clinton For å forstå Clintons retorikk, må ein kjenne til City upon a hill - tankegangen: As Ronald Reagan emphasized, America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere." Sourcewatch. ".. a city on a hill" so brilliantly successful other nations would line up to mirror it. " http://www.beliefnet.com/ "I would argue with you that it is almost impossible for a political candidate to win major office in this country without making his or her `city on the hill' speech," said Charles Haynes, a First Amendment scholar at