This will never happen, the democrats will protect her for 2016 and the media will oblidge.

Interesting that the Globe would publish this letter.  So many of the comments attached to the original column claimed that Clinton's success was improving America's image internatinally, after the horrible Bush years.  While that claim is silly on its face, this correspondent rightly points out that our image did not improve under Obama/Clinton.  Apologizing for your country makes you look weak.

Am I the only one who could care less what the rest of the world thinks of us?

Mr. Marans' view is too narrow.  Hillary Clinton came in on the heels of Condi Rice and Colin Powell, the former complicit in much of the Bush subterfuge, the latter an unknowing, and later unwilling, accomplice.  I will leave it to the author to refresh his memory of the transgressive Bush years.  There is certainly enough out there to handicap anyone following such a bad act.  Let me say that first, Mrs. Clinton articulated President Obama's policies, which Republicans horribly mischaracterized as lenient (remember the knock that Obama would be a weak Commander in Chief?)  Her marching orders were first, to regain goodwill from our friends and allies and assure them that America would not ignore them.  The commitments in the Middle East have been scaled down, its military presence shrinking and its nation-building days, over.  Next year we will be out of Afghanistan.  Iraq is an occupier's memory.  BinLaden is gone.  AlQaeda is a guerilla force that is receiving our attention as the agressor of 9/11 should, and with startling drone success, many of its leaders have been eliminated.  This is a hands-on foreign policy by President Obama.  

Asia and No. Africa are now in play, the Asian countries seeing an American presence that was lacking ; not strictly a military presence but more of a diplomatic partnership.  The renewed American presence in the Pacific is attuned to the sphere of global wealth and power.  No. Africa, esp Mali, is a threat because it is safe haven to recruit, train, live, plan and execute for al Queda.  It is not being ignored.

Granted there were failures, but they were expected.  Mrs. Clinton was given the task of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.  Everyone else has failed and no one expected a different result, but Mrs. Clinton charged ahead.  Benghazi was a politicized death which, when put in perspective (minus a congressional hearing,) had been duplicated many more times and with many more American deaths during the Bush administration.....yet not one whimper of criticism was heard.  Even Stephens' parents expressly wished it would not be used politically, to no avail.

The days of shoot first, declare "Mission Accomplished," and pick up the pieces later, are over.  Mrs. Clinton, as Sec of State, presided over a more diplomatic and less military America.  If you think we should still be the world's policeman, spilling our young blood on a whim, or building nations to our specs, then yes, you would not like Mrs. Clinton.  But if you realize that we live in an imperfect world, where democracy sometimes goes bad (Hamas) and must be dealt with, or that others are stubborn and only moved politically (Netanyahu,) or that some are unpredictible (Kim jong-un) and others have various cultural, personal and national issues different from ours,  Hillary Clinton was one of the best Secretaries of State in our lifetime.