Posted on 04/23/2006 5:35:47 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Q: In your new book, "The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs," you admit to having underestimated the role that religion would come to play in foreign affairs.
People were unprepared for it. I was unprepared for it. What I grew up with was the "rational actor" model of foreign policy — the idea that you're dealing with someone who is going through a rational process and not a spiritual process.
One could argue that it's wholly rational to be spiritual.
No. Rational is logical, and not faith-based. A rational actor calculates the cost-benefit ratios of things.
You were trained to try to contain Communism, which was godless.
People my age who were trained in history and policy would always say, "Foreign policy is very mplicated, and if you bring God in, it's even more complicated."
Yes, as we know from the Palestinian conflict, which you tried hard to resolve. As the secretary of state under President Clinton, how do you feel when you read the newspapers today?
Sick. A lot of the things that we worked on for eight years have unraveled. It is very hard.
What do you consider the greatest mistake of this administration?
What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
Did you see Saddam Hussein as a threat to this country?
He was horrible. But I did not think he was an imminent threat to the United States. You can't go to war with everybody you dislike. I think Iraq may end up being one of the worst disasters in American foreign policy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Read the rest of this--it actually gets worse, if you can belive it.
Did Ms Solomon ask Mrs Albright about her opinions of the Left branding her as a war criminal over Kosovo, Sudan, and Iraq circa her 1990s policies?
The Toon picked some real winners didn't he? This clown and Janet Reno for starters.
I loved Solomon's question: "What's the biggest failure of THIS administration?" Nothing about the failures of her OWN administration. What a bunch of phony demonrat *ss-kissers they are...
Now to the content...
Yes, as we know from the Palestinian conflict, which you tried hard to resolve. As the secretary of state under President Clinton, how do you feel when you read the newspapers today?
Sick. A lot of the things that we worked on for eight years have unraveled. It is very hard.
OK....so you continued to fund terrorists with diverted humanitarian aid, believed in Arafat's lies and that's considered work?
What do you consider the greatest mistake of this administration?
What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
When has freedom of choice ever been forced on anyone? If we were imposing democracy, the formation of government in Iraq would have had a much shorter timetable.
The US liberals try their hardest ways possible to conceral the Euroepan Left's hatred of the Clinton Administration. It is time to dust out old copies of Le Monde or al-Guardian and print out their old anti-Clinton editorials.
I unearthed this deep inside the BBC archive. There are some British and European Left very upset that Clinton was too conservative on them, at least when it comes to military and US foreign policies, believe it or not!
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Did she really give him a lap dance?
I did not know that.
[I'd previously heard only about the Lewinskys]
Okay. That photo definitely justifies a Barf Alert.
Somebody needs to explain to this nitwit the difference between a democracy and a representative republic.
Yeah...you're right: I should have posted a 2-bag barf alert. I figured it just about goes without saying with her name in the headline, but next time I will add the warning.
Madeline Albright February 18, 2002
"Iraq is a long way from (here), but what happens there matters a great deal here, for the risk that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest national security threat we face -- and it is a threat against which we must and will stand firm."
I'll make the presumption that her pants are on fire.
Next to Jimmy Carter, Madeleine Albright was the worst disaster in American foreign policy.
That explains the Balkan Quagmire thing.
And how would you assess your performance while in office, Madame Sec?
I was unprepared for it.
Sick. A lot of the things that we worked on for eight years have unraveled. It is very hard.
What is she talking about? The Pali's have held elections and are now back to doing what they do best; killing each other. Oh, and they're still terrorists.
What has unraveled or dried up rather, is the free flow of US tax payer's dollars.
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