I'd agree that part of Hillary's strategy has been to keep a relatively low profile.
But to the extent she has spoken out, it has been in a very calculated attempt to reposition herself as a pro-defense moderate, as in her statement on abortion and her remarks in Iraq last week to the effect that the elections were a rebuke to the insurgents.
This is her first bad misstep I can recall in recent times.
What would be the difference since Iraq must have protections in its constitution regarding freedom of worship or it's coalition to govern among the various interest groups would immediately fall apart?
Then you have forgotton her ramblings during the Boxer Rebellion.
Hillary is not a good speaker, she makes poor decisions at the wrong moment. Her greatest aid is the ability to be unquestioned. To have the offer from the press to re-word her statements, such as she'll take all our money for the greater good. The MSM covers for her as they did Kerry. She does have better advisors than he, but Hillary herself does not have her husband's talent in this department. Under scrutiny of a national campaign she'll slip up, as she has done here.