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| Madeleine hits `bipolar' foreign policy |
| 2002-05-20 |
| Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright yesterday criticized President Bush's foreign policy as ''bipolar'' and said she doubted Bush's claim that he did not know of a 1999 report raising the possibility of hijacked planes being used as terrorist weapons. Addressing graduates of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Albright stressed her support for Bush's fight against terrorism but chastised him for not acting sooner to mediate the ''incredible mess'' between Israel and the Palestinians. Ummm... As far as I know, it's not our country and we weren't invited. When the Man from Hope jumped through hoops to leave a Legacy, Yasser told him to get bent. When the Faire Madeleine went chasing after a huffy Yasser in her pumps he flipped her the bird and went home to supervise the exploding. ''On some important issues, the Bush foreign policy team seems to be suffering from untreated bipolar disorder,'' Albright said. ''This split personality is also evident in Afghanistan, where one day they are ridiculing nation-building and the next proposing a new Marshall Plan; and in the Middle East, where the signals they have sent have varied day by day.'' 'Course that means the situation on the ground could have been changing day by day, and that when they tried one thing and it didn't work, they moved on to another thing. Albright, the former top diplomat in the Clinton administration, minced no words as she departed from her predecessors' custom of remaining publicly neutral on the performance of a previous administration. Albright, who was the first female secretary of state, is now teaching at Georgetown University. Nobody in the Clinton administration seemed too hot for the idea of following rules and precendents, did they? At a news conference before her commencement address to the class of 189 graduates, Albright said she does not blame the Bush administration for not preventing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Mighty daggone big of her! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 The biggest thing that the US has allowed to happen in the past year in Israel/Palestine is to allow both parties to realize that there is a downside to not negotiating. Before 2001 the Palestinians obviously failed to realize that there is a "time for war and a time for peace". The last series of Israeli West Bank operations may, perhaps, have dispelled the false assumption that randomly killing Jews is something that can be done with impunity. Albright never realized that carrots taste better because of the lack of appeal of the stick option. But she and WJC never really were into sticks as policy options, unless the target of the stick was such isolated nutcases like Baby Doc Duvalier and Slobo Milosevich. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-05-21 06:35:41 |