"Mad' Madeline Albright opens her mouth once again. And the ever fawning AP/WaPo prints every word.
"Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright says President Bush's foreign policy has driven away moderate Arab leaders and created the potential for a dangerous rift with European allies."
You mean the 'allies' that decided to continue stuffing their wallets rather than do the right thing? And I think that the 'moderate arab leaders' would rather deal with America now than later, you double bag bint.
"Albright, writing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs quarterly, criticized Bush as using "the shock of force" rather than relying on alliances in ways that fundamentally depart from more than a half-century of U.S. foreign policy."
She can write? Jeez, judging from her past foreign policy measures, I thought that she couldn't read or something. Because she sure never read any history.
"Albright, a Democrat who headed the State Department in the Clinton administration, said Bush was rejecting the advice even of his father, former President George H.W. Bush, that the United States should not go it alone in the fight against terrorism "or in anything else, for that matter."
That 'unilateralism' bit is getting quite old. But the again so is she.
"She quoted the son, the current president, as declaring before going to war with Iraq that "at some point we may be the only ones left. That's okay with me. We are America."
The AP/WaPo is trying very hard not to even mention GWB's name. It's so cute how they do that. Like it will conjure an evil spirit or something.
"Albright said she would applaud Bush's "admirable definition of spine in confronting those who threaten the safety of the American people ... if only those policies were safeguarding U.S. citizens more effectively."
Hmmm, I don't remember getting attacked on our own soil since September 11th. Anyone else?
"Specifically, she said the Bush administration's decision to shift its focus from opposing the al-Qaida terror network to invading Iraq and threatening military action against others caused popular support for the United States among Europeans to drop sharply."
I don't remember anything in the US Constitution stating that there was an index comparing our approval rating with the Euros that said how good a job a president was doing. In fact, if you go through, I think that the general concensus was that we should give less than a shit.
"The ouster of Saddam Hussein in Iraq has made the world a better place, Albright wrote, but it also cut into the support the administration needs to discredit and dismantle al-Qaida."
On the first point, Maddie, I'm glad someone on your side of the fence is finally admitting this is true. On the second point though, I don't think that any country with a semi-cognizant leader is going to pick al-Qaida over the US.
"The Iraq war and the subsequent U.S. occupation of Baghdad, the capital of Islam during that faith's golden age, have made more difficult the choice Islamic moderates and others around the world must make," Albright said."
Oooh, wrong again, Maddie. Remember the 'They are either with us or against us' thing. Sorry, try again next time.
"Instead of asking them to oppose al-Qaida, Bush also asked for support for the invasion of an Arab country and endorsement of the doctrine of pre-emption, all in one package, she wrote."
Yep. You see this way, we don't need to worry about having to come back and grovel for support. They know our position right up front. And we know theirs. No If's, And's or But's.
"Even more remarkable than Arab leaders deciding they did not want to be with the United States even though they opposed al-Qaida, she said, was the reaction among the closest U.S. friends in Europe."
The Axis of Weasel's decision-making prowess is not something I would call remarkable. But I understand why you would.
"It was a war of choice, not of necessity," Albright wrote, and "it was initiated by the Washington in a show of dominance prompted by a sense of vulnerability that most Europeans do not fully share."
If the first half of this century haven't proven to you the utter lack of understanding of world affairs by the Euros, then I guess the Soviet occupation of eastern Europe doesn't stand a chance of sticking to the inside of your skull.
"Albright said differences with Europe can be narrowed. "The American people, with an assist from Secretary of State Colin Powell and other voices of reason, will not let the administration go too far."
Sadly, Powell's common sense is MIA. Too bad the rest of his State Department cannot do us all the same favor.
"Albright said the United States must be relentless in shaping a global consensus that terrorism is always wrong, and there can be no excuses for it."
I think that our current actions are working to sink that message in. Hows about you use your former 'superstar' status and go ask the Imam's to stop recuiting jihadis.
"Reflecting on her experiences as secretary of state, she said she rarely received a satisfactory answer from Arab leaders when she made the point repeatedly."
Oh yeah, those folks whose culture you see as equivalent to America's, well they don't listen to a thing a woman says. Something about women being property or something.
"Most of them would condemn terror unconditionally "except where it was most regularly practiced, namely in and against Israel," Albright said."
So they want a 'Grandfather Clause' for killing Jews, huh? Nuke the fucks. That'll teach them.
"To this day, it remains the majority Arab view that the militarily overmatched Palestinians are justified in fighting Israelis with whatever means they have," Albright wrote."
Maddie, I knew that before you even took office. But thanks for the update.
Posted by AnalogKid at August 21, 2003 02:35 PM | TrackBack