Throughout the Democratic primary campaign, Hillary Clinton showed that she had a more realistic view of the world than Obama.
She recognized immediately the folly of his pledge to meet “without precondition” the tyrants of Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. She never apologized for her vote to authorize the war, even under intense pressure from her party’s left wing. And that famous “3 A.M.” campaign ad? We thought that was right on the money.
We didn’t want either Clinton or Obama to become president, but now that Obama has won, and that 3 A.M. phone call is on the way, Clinton is as good a pick as could have been expected for the nation’s top foreign-policy position.