Primarily, Clinton gives new meaning to the concept of "Hard Choices," a clever title in this context of decision-making where, as one pundit puts it, there are no best choices there are only better and worse bad choices. In more than 600 pages, Clinton formulates a comprehensive, apt, wide-ranging and yes, nonpartisan catalog of the world's current trouble spots, where her 112 visits took her during her four years as secretary of state. Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices," makes the case for what government can do. The implication is that government is too political to effectively combat so great a danger. Remarkably, someone on the panel concluded that the solution to defusing the nuclear threat might not come from our government but rather from within the academy, from nongovernment organizations and religious institutions. The point of the panel was to reawaken attention to this formidable issue. We have lived with this menace for 70 years, and it is no longer as primary on our radar as, for instance, climate change. Actually, the discussion wasn't so much about the threat, but rather public complacency about it. Jerry Brown and a panel of experts at Stanford discuss the nuclear threat.
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