CLINTON IN MOSCOW - AT  5:23 P.M. ET:  Hillary Clinton knows when to get out of town.  She's in Moscow, getting absolutely nowhere with another country we've reach out to.  The New York Times has all the exciting details, not:

MOSCOW — In a tart public clash over Iran, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said here Thursday that the planned opening this summer of a Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran would send the wrong signal at a time when the West was trying to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said the much delayed plant, near the Iranian city of Bushehr, would go into operation this summer, though he did not give a date. His comments, made at a meeting of nuclear officials, came on the day that Mrs. Clinton arrived here for talks with Russian leaders about an arms control agreement, Iran, the Middle East, and other issues.

“We think it would be premature to go forward with any project at this time, because we want to send an unequivocal message to the Iranians,” Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference after meeting with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov. But Mr. Lavrov insisted that the Bushehr cooperation played “a special role” in keeping international inspectors inside Iran, and “ensuring that Iran is complying with its nonproliferation obligations."

COMMENT:  Our Iran policy is as dead as Hillary's marriage.  We have gotten nowhere, and the Russians have been no help. 

I wonder when Hillary starts looking for the exits.  She's become Barack's poodle, not the "strongest man in the Cabinet" that had been advertised.  Time to check the jobs at Craigslist.

March 18, 2010