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 ...
Then what was that 98 congressional resolution all about??
What has unraveled or dried up rather, is the free flow of US tax payer's dollars.
BINGO!
ML/NJ
You won't get an argument from me, friend.
Yep...large egos coupled with ignorance/stupidity are a deadly combination.
Moreover, the realpolitique she espouses is not a progressive idea, but had its origins in the Congress of Vienna 1815 which was a reactionary defense of the old order after the French Revolution. We saw after 9/11 that it had brought us allies we didn't agree with, especially Saudi Arabia.
Yes it is sickening. You thought you could get WJC thr nobel peace prize for your Mideast peace proces. Now it looks like it was just a hoax.
Underestimated the role religion would play in foreign policy. Gee, I guess she wasn't in Clinton's Rolodex when it came to bin Laden, embassy bombing, The Cole, and God knows what else.
The NYTimes jumped the shark with this one.
First question for her that came to mind was do you consider yourself more an idiot or just stupid?
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.
"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction." - Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998
Madeline Albright the liar.
I think Madeline/Hans Blix/ and Bill Clinton's appeasement of North Korea's nuclear proliferation during the 1990's ... may edge out a currently disarmed and slowly democratizing Iraq .... as the nation's "worst foreign policy disaster".
Whatchoo think?
Either that (N Korea, that is, and only time will tell) or essentially ignoring bin Laden and al Qaeda.
In all seriousness, I saw this bumpersticker on a minivan in a high school parking lot just last month (emphasis in the original)...
Christian by choice...
Democrat BY THE GRACE OF GOD!
Correction: What an ugly bunch of shite...
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