Recent comments made by Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright may provide some context around this week’s decision by the Obama Administration to walk away from the Eastern Europe land-based missile defense strategy.
Russian media outlet Pravda reports that Albright, speaking at a forum in Omsk, Siberia, remarked that America no longer had the intention of being the first nation of the world. "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 is quoted to have said.
With former secretaries of state like this, who needs new enemies?
Hat Tip: Powerline by way of Tigerhawk
Saturday, September 19, 2009
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Secretary of State Madeline Albright gave one of the worst public addresses I ever heard in person while I was in school. As a student body I think that we were all shocked that this person was such an eminent public figure. It all started when a 20 something year old college student asked a question pertaining to human rights in China and the Secretary of State blatantly dodged it going back to her current policy address. Instead of sitting down, the student asked the question again and commented that she had not addressed the question the first time. In the end, the student was sat down and his mic turned off. What followed was an audible gasp and shock from the rest of the theater and then a steady trickle out of the door. Unheard of in this particular school where pols go for a canned and observant audience.
The sad truth is that our president bases his foreign policy decisions on the advice he receives from like minded advisors like Ms Albright and now Mrs. Clinton neither of whom would be considered as among the sharpest knives in the drawer of geopolitics.
No wonder President Obama reneged on the missile defense deal.
Smoothfur, they aren't even knives. If they are any utensils of foreign policy, they are the balloon. What, a balloon is not a utensil? Exactly.
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