Madeleine Albright DESTROYS BUSH: "Good Vs Evil Isn't A Stragegy"(LAT)

[kpete]

Good versus evil isn't a strategy
Bush's worldview fails to see that in the Middle East, power politics is the key.
By Madeleine Albright
March 24, 2006


THE BUSH administration's newly unveiled National Security Strategy might well be subtitled "The Irony of Iran." Three years after the invasion of Iraq and the invention of the phrase "axis of evil," the administration now highlights the threat posed by Iran — whose radical government has been vastly strengthened by the invasion of Iraq. This is more tragedy than strategy, and it reflects the Manichean approach this administration has taken to the world.

It is sometimes convenient, for purposes of rhetorical effect, for national leaders to talk of a globe neatly divided into good and bad. It is quite another, however, to base the policies of the world's most powerful nation upon that fiction. The administration's penchant for painting its perceived adversaries with the same sweeping brush has led to a series of unintended consequences.

much more at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-albright24mar24,0,5251258.story?coll=la-home-commentary
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/24/13640/7398

[Ecumenist]

1. Not a strategy, huh?

The only strategy he understands, (to a large extent), is getting his next hit without getting caught by mammy bush, Pickles or the camera.

[ClayZ]

2. WOW! K and R

:kick:

[Grateful for Hope]

3. It's easy to see

why he would not let her speak at that sham photo-op meeting he held. Had it been a real meeting, I am sure we would have heard all kinds of interesting opinions about his ME strategy.

[kenny blankenship]

4. I'm sure he would agree. That's why his strategy for foreign policy

pursues Evil exclusively.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended!

:kick:

[Astrocloud]

6. It's "Stategery"

Good article by the way.

Hmmm. Madeleine Albright -architect of Operation Allied Force... The war in which the US had clear definate goals and a low casualty rate.

-But republicans would NEVER listen to her -she's a liberal after all.

[Longhorn]

7. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[RobertSeattle]

8. But it is a Stategery

Net Good: Good Policy, Properly Implemented
Net Bad: Good Policy, Poorly Implemented
Net Bad: Bad Policy, Properly Implemented
Net Bad: Bad Policy, Poorly Implemented

[northamericancitizen]

9. Kick and recommended.

[phusion]

10. Albright supported sanctions...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright :

In 1996, she made highly controversial remarks in an interview with Leslie Stahl on CBS's Sixty Minutes. Asked by Stahl with regards to effect of sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" Albright replied: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price -- we think the price is worth it."

[rman]

11. true that - it's Hollywood fantasy. nt