Monday, March 27, 2006

Maddy and the Garden of Good and Evil Update

It seems I was wrong. Ms. Albright does not have to remember the 1980s to remember the value of Good vs. Evil as a strategy. She just needs to check her own appearance on Wolf Blitzer on Oct. 21, 2001 (via El Rushbo):
Wolf Blitzer says, "Dr. Albright, as you know, the inspections of Iraq ended during the Clinton administration when you were secretary of state, and since then, the US and other members of the international community have not been able to find out what, if anything, Saddam Hussein is doing in these various aspects of weapons of mass destruction."

ALBRIGHT: I wish that the first Bush administration had finished the job in the Gulf War, which is a lesson about what we're doing now, is to make sure that we actually complete what we begin. It was very hard, in fact, to hold a coalition together during the sanctions aspect of this and to keep the inspectors there, but you also have to remember that the US has been and was taking military action against Saddam Hussein during the Clinton administration, in terms of making sure that we could continue to patrol the no-fly zones. I have always believed that Saddam Hussein is part of a major evil aspect in the world.


Emphases are mine. Seems Ms. Maddy doesn't remember her own use of Good and Evil as a strategy. Hmm....could be that old age is kickin' in, or perhaps she was too busy fantasizing about her time with good ol Kim Jong Il, sharing a nice glass of chablis and who knows what else....