Colleen Bell, whose main qualifications to be U.S. ambassador to Hungary are that she wrote the TV soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” and raised more than half a million bucks for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, was asked what the major strategic U.S. interests are in the country where she'll soon be in charge of American diplomacy.
Keep in mind that in her final months as secretary of State, Hillary Clinton sent Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a letter essentially saying that this fellow member nation of NATO is backsliding into dictatorship.
Bell's reply: “I think our key priorities are to improve upon, as I mentioned, the security relationship and also the law enforcement and to promote business opportunities, increase trade.”
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