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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is at it again.  "I think that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy."  I'll deal with her comments in a second, but take a guess where she made this riculous comment.  That's right!  At the Carter Center with good ole, Jimmy "everything is Israels fault" Carter at her side.  For those who do not know, Albright was actually a part of Jimmy Carter's national security team in the 1970's.  And didn't they do a wonderful job with foreign policy.  They allowed the fall of the Shah in Iran, which allowed the rise of the Islamic extremists, and in turn led to 52 American's to be taken hostage for 444 days.  When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, their answer was to boycott the Moscow summer Olympics in 1980.  Wow, that really worked to get the Soviets out!  Ugh...thank goodness for Ronald Reagan!  Lets fast forward to the foreign policy of our country in the 1990's under President Clinton.  The first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.  Six dead over 1000 injured.  Response?  Nothing.  Not only nothing, but Clinton never visited the site and wouldn't call it terrorism.  Mogidishu, Somalia in October 1993. 19 dead soldiers and over 70 injured.  Response?  To pull out (with help from John McCain, thanks John!).  This led Osama Bin Laden to refer to America as a "paper tiger."  June 1996, 19 killed in the Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia.  August 1998, our embassies were bombed in Kenya and Tanzania where 224 died and hundreds injured.  October 2000, the USS Cole was bombed and 17 sailors were killed.  Our response to all of this?  To bomb an aspirin factory in Sudan.  All of this inaction on forgein policy of course led to September 11, 2001, where we lost over 3,000 innocent people.  Thank goodness for President George W. Bush!  Talk about a complete failure of foreign policy!  The Clinton administration (of which Albright was a part, first as U.S. ambassador to the Useless Nations, then as Secretary of State) did nothing.  That is the foreign policy we should return too?!  I don't think so.  And remember, we aren't allowed to question the Clinton administration (despite Hillary's shreiking that we have the "right to debate and disagree with any administration).  And by the way, Albright wasn't done.  She also went on to say that we "have lost the element of goodness in American power, and we have lost our moral authority."  So freeing 50 million people in two countries and giving them a shot at freedom and democracy is not a good thing provided by America?  Lost our moral authority?  I didn't realize it was us who beheaded people, did it on video, and then posted it on websites.  Does anybody else remember that picture from 6 months ago?  The one where an unarmed drone got a picture of like 170 taliban fighters gathered for a funeral.  Did we blow them away?  No.  Why?  We don't attack funerals or graves.  But yet, we have lost our moral authority.  I really suggest Madeleine Albright go back and watch Path to 9-11.  She might learn something.  Like how the foreign policy under her fomer boss was THE worst ever.  With the exception of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy, of course.
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