Hillary Clinton is in Washington D.C. today, giving what is touted as a “major foreign policy address.”

Listening now, I’m looking for what’s new. She’s surrounding herself with military brass: “General Wesley Clark, Lt. General Joe Ballard, Major General Antonio M. Taguba, Rear Admiral David Stone, Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Jr. and former Secretary of the Army Togo West. Generals Taguba and Watkins will formally announce their endorsement of Senator Clinton today.”

She’s talking about visiting Africa… that wouldn’t be a veiled reference to the infamous photo floating around, would it?

UPDATE: Ah, finally, the meat: “Withdrawing troops is not easy. You don’t just wake up one morning and say, ‘bring them home.’ It requires planning that looks at every possible contingency.”

She mentions the necessity of a plan to withdraw the 100,000 American civilians working in Iraq. She goes into “taking care of the people who took care of our troops – translators and drivers… Honor is important. We are an honorable nation. We must do more to take care of those who have sided with, and taken care of, our people in Iraq.”

“I will not be penciling in dictators on the White House calendar without preconditions and preparations of lower-level diplomacy… We cannot serve our interests by impulsively agreeing to presidential-level talks with no preconditions. It may sound good, but it doesn’t meet the real-world test of foreign policy.”

“I will not broadcast intentions to take unilateral actions in a country like Pakistan just to demonstrate that I’m tough enough for the job.”

UPDATE: Looking at the transcript in the Corner, it looks like Hillary is more or less following William Kristol’s advice — attempting to puncture the euphoria of the Obama movement by asking whether he is ready to be commander-in-chief in a dangerous world.