Travel: Hillary Arrives at NATO like a Rockstar

Well, Secretary Clinton has been out and about Europe today rockin' two fabulous outfits!

Early this morning she attended a U.S.-French meeting earlier at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, in eastern France. President Obama and Michelle Obama were also in attendance as well as France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

France rolled out all the pomp possible for the U.S.-France visit, including a red carpet arrival! And Hillary rolled in looking like a f#@*ing rockstar! I love love love the hot pink pantsuit with the matching sunglasses and lipstick.

There was also full military honors from a company of soldiers dressed in camouflage at the majestic 18th-century Rohan Palace, once home to the bishops of Alsace. Church bells pealed at the stroke of noon from the nearby Strasbourg cathedral, while helicopters helping ensure security droned overhead.

Hillary met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before the formal start of the summit at a dinner at the German resort spa of Baden-Baden. Also in attendance was French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and France's special envoy for Afghanistan. A sign that Afghanistan issues would likely come up for discussion.

After this was the 60th-anniversary NATO summit. The summit takes place today and Saturday in Strasbourg and the neighboring German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl.

Items on the packed agenda of the two-day summit include starting work on a new doctrine that will define the alliance's role and values in the 21st century and choosing a new secretary-general. The leaders will formally welcome France back into NATO's military wing after a 43-year absence, a largely symbolic move championed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. They will also welcome two new members from the Balkans, Albania and Croatia joined NATO this week.

Although NATO leaders have emphasized that the meeting Friday and Saturday must be more than just a birthday celebration, no major breakthroughs are expected on key issues facing the alliance.

The two-day conference co-hosted by the Rhine river cities of Strasbourg and Kehl, Germany is the second of three major international meetings taking place in Europe this week.

Secretary Clinton said securing new commitments from allies would neither begin nor end with the NATO meetings, noting that nations need more time to digest Obama's week-old revamped Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. "The NATO summit is not a pledging conference, but of course we will be talking about how our allies can match their resources to the needs identified in the strategic review," she told reporters.

Those resources are not necessarily combat troops, she stressed, in a conference call with reporters covering the president's trip to Europe. "I think we're trying to focus on what we think will work, and what we believe will work is moving as quickly as it feasible to having security taken over by the Afghans themselves," she said.