==They’ve been planning on
Using pandemics for a long time. Fuck U. And diverting USAID to themselves==
From: Hillary Clinton To: Date: 2010-08-30 02:00 Subject: LEADING THROUGH CIVILIAN POWER
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05772283 Date: 08/31/2015 August 30, 2010 RELEASE IN FULL LEADING THROUGH CIVILIAN POWER HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Today's world is a crucible of challenges testing American leadership.' A glance at the headlines —and the trend lines —explains why. In the 21 months since President Obama took office, we have seen the effects of the H1N1 health pandemic, an earthquake on a small Caribbean island, and floods in southern Punjab ripple across oceans and continents. And a financial crisis in Greece, a torpedoed ship in the Yellow Sea, and a spike in world food prices cause jitters on Wall Street and worries about our future well-being. Global problems — from violent extremism to worldwide recession to climate change to poverty — demand collective solutions, even as power in the world becomes more diffuse. They require effective international cooperation, even as it becomes harder to achieve. And they call for American leadership, even as the world changes around us. I began my tenure as Secretary of State by stressing the need to elevate diplomacy and development alongside defense — a "smart power" approach to solving global problems. To make that approach succeed, however, our civilian power must be strengthened and amplified. It must, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates has argued in these pages, be brought into better balance with our military power. This effort is well underway. Congress already has appropriated funds for 1,108 new Foreign and Civil service officers to strengthen the State Department's capacity to pursue America's interests and advance our values. At USAID, we are doubling development officers, hiring 1,200 new foreign service officers with the specific skills and experience required for evolving development challenges, and making more effective use of the local hires at our overseas missions who have deep knowledge of their countries. We have begun rebuilding USAID into the world's premier development organization, one that seeds long-term growth, includes its own research arm, shapes policy and innovation, and uses metrics to ensure that our investments are cost-effective and sound. But we need to do more. We need not only to rebuild — but also to rethink, reform, and recalibrate. During my years on the Senate Armed Services Committee, I saw how the Department of Defense used its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) to align its resources, policies, and strategies for the present — and the future. No similar mechanism existed for modernizing the State Department or USAID. One of my first acts as Secretary of State was to 1 UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05772283 Date: 08/31/2015 appoint a new Deputy Secretary in charge of managing our systems and resources. And in July 2009,
I launched the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR)
a wholesale review of State and USAID to recommend how we can better equip, fund, and organize ourselves to meet our current diplomatic and development priorities and how we can begin building the people, structures, processes, and resources today to address the world's challenges in the years ahead. The QDDR is not simply a review. It defines how to make diplomacy and development coordinated, complementary, and mutually reinforcing. It assesses what has worked in the past and what hasn't. And it forecasts future strategic choices and resource needs.
While the State Department and USAID have distinct roles and missions, we know that diplomacy and development often overlap — and must often work in tandem. Increasingly, global challenges call for a mix of both, requiring us to pursue a more holistic approach to civilian power. Diplomatic objectives are often more effectively secured by development gains. The resumption of direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians over the summer was the handiwork of talented and persistent diplomats. But progress at the negotiating table is directly linked to progress building strong and stable institutions of a Palestinian state and providing Israel with needed security. And development objectives are often more effectively secured by diplomatic engagement. The impact of our Feed the Future program and Global Health Initiative will turn in part on the promotion of policy reforms in partner countries, and our Millennium Challenge Compacts are in part the product of sustained political engagement to create positive conditions for development. In many places, including Iraq
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