© Associated Free Press - John ThysUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) speaks with Italian Foreign minister Franco Frattini (C-back) and Lithuanian Foreign minister Vygaudas Usackas during a photo at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels. The United States and Lithuania signed an agreement here Monday aimed at making it easier to prosecute suspected financial criminals, computer hackers and violent extremists.
Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe as secretary of state when she mispronounced her EU counterparts' names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe's.
Clinton has set herself a grueling pace on visits to Egypt, Israel and Brussels soon after touring the Far East, attending dozens of meetings and giving speech after speech, with little time worked into her schedule for sleep.
Tiredness appeared to show Friday when she answered questions in front of 500 young Europeans at the European Parliament, where she was the highest-ranking U.S. visitor since the late President Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Comment: Overcharged - instead of reset - describes exactly the current relationship between the US and Russia, and we do wonder whether it was a message of sorts, rather than a mistake. We are supposed to believe that a whole State Department couldn't get the translation right?