I believe that Obama knows that Hillary realizes that conflict emerges from these problems, and that using military intervention without addressing them is merely the equivalent of throwing a blanket into a volcano. America’s president-elect may even understand that his choice for secretary of state learned to look at statecraft and global policy in that way by sitting with and listening to a formerly dirt-poor woman in a sari in a dusty village commons – a woman who has now become a small-scale microcredit entrepreneur, and is helping to educate and feed her family.