Hillary Clinton appeared on ABC, CBS, and NBC morning shows this morning, and the contrast was shocking. On ABC’s Good Morning America with all the female senators, Hillary spoke toward the superiority of women in government, for they are more collegial:

“But I do think what we’re all saying is, that there is at least in our experience, more of an openness to process, to bring people together to the table, that collaboration and collegiality.”

That’s quite a shock if you caught her on NBC’s Today, where she twice threatened Maliki and other Iraqi government leaders with taking away their bodyguard money unless they cry uncle to the occupiers: “I don’t think we should continue to fund the protection for the Iraqi government leaders or for the training and equipping of their army unless they meet certain conditions.” She repeated it for emphasis that we should threaten, “putting leverage on them and saying ‘you know what, we provide security for the members of this government, we’re cutting funding for that.’”

On CBS, Hillary repeated the shut-down-their-security money threat: “I’m for conditioning any further funding for . . . the protection of the leaders . . . on their fulfulling the political goals that we have expected of them.” If only she could be this tough with our actual enemies.