“If Hillary actually said this then Kudos to her.”
If she were a private citizen then fine. She is not. She is Secretary of State. The purpose of diplomacy is to present tactful deceits in order to make the target acquiescent. She fails as baldly and badly as her boss.
We been trying diplomacy for 10 years - how’s that working out? Reason fails when you are dealing with animals. Time to call a spade a spade.