Posted on 09/18/2009 11:00:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright spoke at a forum in Omsk, Siberia. Pravda reported that her speech "surprised the audience." No wonder. The Russians in attendance must have wondered how they managed to lose the cold war:
Madeleine Albright said during the meeting that America no longer had the intention of being the first nation of the world.
Ms. Albright started her speech in Russian. "Hello and thank you! It's a pleasure for me to be here," she said in Russian. Albright wrote in her autobiography that she was trying to learn some Russian during the 1960s.
The former US Secretary of State surprised the audience with her speech. She particularly said that democracy was not the perfect system. "It can be contradictory, corrupt and may have security problems," Albright said.
America has been having hard times recently, Albright said.
"We have been talking about our exceptionalism during the recent eight years. Now, an average American wants to stay at home - they do not need any overseas adventures. We do not need new enemies," Albright said adding that Beijing, London and Delhi became a serious competition for Washington and New York.
"My generation has made many mistakes. We give the future into the hands of the young. Your prime goal is to overcome the gap between the poor and the rich,' the former head of the US foreign political department said.
There you have it. And Albright was Secretary of State during the relatively moderate Clinton administration. I'm afraid she speaks for most Democratic foreign policy "experts." Promoting American weakness: it's not a bug, it's a feature.
By the way, since "overcoming the gap between the poor and the rich" is the world's number one priority, do you suppose Albright waived her speaker's fee, which is listed coyly as more than $40,000? No, I don't think so, either.
I wonder if the Russkis made Halfbright clean up the building after she was through “speaking”.
If anyone had any doubt this guy is Carter part 2 this should clear that up
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 58 BC
(written specifically for you Madeline)
Utter delusional nonsense.
Democrats hate America. It’s impossible to conclude anything else.
It was the stated foreign policy under the Clintons to ‘equalize’ all nations. And it was Maddie Albright that went around this globe setting into motion that very plan under the Clintons.
INTREP
Dolt.
No system works better than the people running it, although ours does a far better job of that than anyone else's. We've survived the scoundrels who run for office for 230 years.
The system didn't fail, Maddie, the people within the system failed.
hillary carring on in here footsteps
“Democrats hate America. It’s impossible to conclude anything else.”
I think it’s not so much that they hate America, but that they see the entity “America” standing in the way of a world Socialist union and therefore it must be dismantled.
Well, one of the mistakes would be in the context of the former Yugoslavia
Siberia, a good place for her to stay.
Many foreign policy ‘experts’ seem to have amnesia that the rise of ‘Asian values’, arguing that Asia should be treated differently from other nations, was the result of Clinton’s vulgar approach to them. Often, when the Dims talk about ‘equality’ with other nations, their attitudes are not much different from when Anthropologist Margaret Mead talked about the ‘savage’ Samoans. Actually, they also have similar attitudes when they talk to or about conservatives.
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Just exactly right. They have been telling us as much, but no one was listening.
"The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat."
- George Soros, February 1997
"The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States."
-- George Soros, June 2006
And our enemies cheer. “I woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
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