Bill Clinton As Ambassador to the World?

Writer Al Giordano suggests we ask Latin America, first. Giordano, writing in the current issue of counterpunch.org, suggests that Mr. Clinton is nowhere near as popular outside of the United States as he and his supporters would like to think he is. Giordano is the founder of Narco News and has lived in and reported from Latin America for the past decade. "Global distrust and resentment toward the United States did not begin with George W. Bush; Clinton, as president, fueled it, too. The true legacy of the first Clinton White House around the world precludes the former president's illusory claim that he can somehow be the magician that would "restore America's standing." While Bill Clinton remains popular inside the United States, and perhaps among white elites in Europe, he would be an albatross, not a talisman, around the neck of future US policy in the Middle East and Africa. But that's not all. His Latin America policies are remembered particularly bitterly in this hemisphere." FULL ARTICLE...