Posted on 09/21/2006 1:46:05 PM PDT by presidio9
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticized President George W. Bush's handling of the war on terror in a speech at Georgetown University Monday night.
Albright was the guest of honor at the fourth annual Snowdon Lecture, a speech by a public figure addressing the intersection of faith and social justice in the world. In the speech sponsored by the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, Albright attacked Bush's policies in Iraq and in third world countries.
"I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy," she said. "We took our eye off the ball."
Bush's practice of calling terrorist organizations and governments haroboring them "evil" was challenged by Albright, who said that human nature does not lend itself to the absolutes Bush emphasizes.
"Evil depends on different perspectives," said Albright, who was the country's first female secretary of state. "This does not imply moral relativism, as critics may suggest, but instead acknowledgement that with great evil often comes a conviction of doing great good."
Albright urged listeners to win over the poorer nations of the world with kindness.
"The extremists appeal to fear," she said. "The moderates must appeal to hope."
Albright, the U.S. representative to the United Nations in the mid-1990s, recognized that it is easy to forget about the world's poor and sick because they do not directly benefit the United States by giving us money or oil.
"We cannot survive long as an island of prosperity in a sea of poverty and desperation," Albright said. "We will not have peace of mind if the world has not a piece of bread."
Albright began the lecture saying she would give her opinion "from a policy-maker's point of view." She said her observations are drawn from her experiences as the secretary of state during President Bill Clinton's second term and the many other public-service positions she has held.
Albright quoted seven different religious texts to emphasize the lecture's stated theme of religious tolerance. The works emphasized the fundamental rule of "do only to others what you would have them do to you."
"We must strive to make religious faith not a sword to wield against others, but a platform to live on together," Albright said in closing, which prompted a standing ovation.
During a question-and-answer session following the lecture, a Georgetown graduate student asked Albright about her work in Serbia during her term as Secretary of State.
"I think I am proudest of what we did in Kosovo because we stopped the killing," Albright said. "I believe in peace, but I'm not a pacifist. When genocidal killing is taking place, the international community has a responsibility to stop it."
Several ambassadors and representatives from 25 embassies were present at the speech, an event organizer said.
The Rev. John Langan of Georgetown University introduced Albright and said why she was chosen for the event.
"She serves as a reflective practitioner who draws upon her vast experience to reflect upon the emergence of religion as the major concern in international affairs." he said. "We need to give this cause a priority - a central priority - for the well-being of our religious communities, our countries and our world."
The InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, an organization whose goals are world-wide community building and justice through religious tolerance, sponsored the lecture. Previous lecturers included World Bank President James Wolfensohn and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young.
Let me see what I can come up with off the top of my head as worse disasters:
Kosovo has to be right up there.
Somalia.
Our "treaty" with N. Korea to keep them from building nukes.
The Iranian hostage crisis.
Bay of Pigs.
Cuban missile crisis.
I'm bored already.
And never forget that a suitcase full of secrets were stolen right off her desk!!
WE HAVE THE INTERNET MS. "SING LIKE A CANARY TO PAKISTAN" ALBRIGHT!!!
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"No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators."
Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State
Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University
February 18, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/18/town.meeting.folo/
"Iraq is a long way from Ohio, but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's Secretary of State
Town Hall Meeting on Iraq at Ohio State University
February 18, 1998
http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/02/20/98022006_tpo.html
I wish this lardass motel maid would hurry up and croak. That would go a long way towards making America "a better place."
All of this learned commentary from a halfwit who was suprised to find out she and her family were Jewish. What a loser and what a gain for Jews who are the better for her departure from the truth.
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Are there any photos of her with Chavez, I wonder?
I smell sulfur.
President Clinton rushed out of the oval office and grabbed the closest secret service agent and told him, as he was gasping for air, I lost the football. The football is missing! Where is the football?! Berger was rounding the corner, made eye contact with Willie and said "Bill, Madeline isn't missing, she is sitting in my office."
Madelaine Albright criticizing anyone's foreign policy decisions is like Barney Frank criticizing another man's taste in women.
"Albright urged listeners to win over the poorer nations of the world with kindness."
and this woman markets consulting services? She's definitely not 'result oriented', is she, LOL?
So does that mean her and George Allen will now be going to Temple together?
Hey, Half-Bright!!! Read my lips - STFU
Don't worry, Madeline--you are wrong and history will show it. So don't worry your clinton enabler little head.
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She was the queen of a the most disastrous admininstration of our modern time. We have been cleaning up her mess for 6 years.
At least her and Ted Turner are on the same page. It looks like Hillary is getting the talking points out of the fax machines.
She was the queen of a the most disastrous admininstration of our modern time. We have been cleaning up her mess for 6 years.
At least her and Ted Turner are on the same page. It looks like Hillary is getting the talking points out of the fax machines.
Madam Albright has no credibility.
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