Albright is Not All That Bright

Madeleine Albright, probably one of the weakest secretaries of state the U.S. has had in a while, gave a speech that was supposedly about the rights of women. Unsurprisingly, she criticized the Iraq War, saying that "we had Saddam Hussein in a box." Blah, blah. Her biggest argument seems to be that we weren't "finished" in Afghanistan, so the U.S. should drop every other problem both domestically and internationally until the job is "finished." At least now we know why Albright and the Clinton Administration never got around to addressing problems in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe or Latin America....they weren't finished with the problems in Bosnia. And by Albright's logic, addressing more than one issue at once is simply too difficult.

Maybe Le Madeleine simply forgot how little she had done to promote women's rights in the Middle East. Maybe she never noticed the treatment of women under the Taliban or Iraqi regimes. Perhaps she hasn't seen the recent democratic movements in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine or Lebanon, none of which would have been possible without Bush's Mideast transformation policy. (I hope she can help us out and tell us how many women were liberated from dictatorships under her watch - I can't seem to remember.)

Then again, Albright was never all that bright.