For the NYT the article is surprisingly fair. However the headline is not. The headline, written by an editor usually and not the author of a story, implies she has improperly maintained a silence. As not in the administration in a Foreign Policy role or in the congress in a minority or majority role, her silence during the actual unfolding is proper as foreign policy is the role of congress and the executive and doesn’t need a lot of prospective candidate input during a critical period of a crisis in an allied country.
A week into it, sure, she can make comments now at a proper distance from the initial days, and I hope she does. But I hope she speaks broadly to the mistakes from Carter on in dealing with countries that are non-equitable with western mixed republics and democracies yet who we are allied from time to time and end up being strengthen in their reactionary existance by that alliance.
Iteresting column for sure, but the writer should know that she has already worked very hard on this special speech, so whatever she says won’t have anything to do with his column or input from any journ0lists or journalists.