NYT: Questions For Senator Clinton

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for secretary of state, appears today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Op-Ed page of the New York Times asked 10 experts to pose the questions they would like to hear Senator Clinton answer.

The questions were poseed by a stellar cast of foreign policy experts:

LAWRENCE B. WILKERSON, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005

MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, the president of Georgia

MICHAEL SANDEL, a professor of government at Harvard

SHI YINHONG, a professor of international relations and the director of the Center for American Studies at Renmin University in Beijing

FOUAD AJAMI, a professor of Middle East studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and an adjunct research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford

WANGARI MAATHAI, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founder of the Green Belt Movement and goodwill ambassador for the Congo Basin Forest Ecosystem

CARLOS A. MONTANER, the author of “Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution”

CATHY YOUNG, a contributing editor at Reason magazine and the author of “Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood”

LEE HAMILTON, vice chairman of the 9/11 commission and president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

For their questions go to the New York Times Web site.

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