That’s Madeleine Albright’s contention of the Iraq War, thereby exposing her blind loyalty to the Clintons. I suspect that she’s also saying that to embellish her ‘legacy’.

“I think that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy,” Albright said, with former President Jimmy Carter at her side in one of a series of “Conversations at the Carter Center.” “We have lost the element of goodness in American power, and we have lost our moral authority,” she said. “The job of the next president will be to restore the goodness of American power.”

Albright, who was part of Carter’s national security team in the 1970s, long before she was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, said many Americans believe that they should be loved around the world. “We don’t have to be loved,” she said. “But we shouldn’t be feared. We should be respected.”

I didn’t know that Albright was part of Carter’s national security team but I’ll admit that it makes sense. Here’s an astonishing statement:

“We don’t have to be loved,” she said. “But we shouldn’t be feared. We should be respected.”

That runs contrary to what I call the Reagan Principle, which he used to bring down the Soviet Union. Stated simply, the Reagan Principle says that you don’t negotiate with your enemies until you’ve scared them into making major, longlasting concessions. The Carter/Albright ‘doctrine’ is the opposite belief, believing that appeasement and ‘modesty’ are the best methods to ensure a false stability.

The Carter method allowed the current international jihadist movement the time to get its feet underneath itself and led to the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis, which is easily the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history. For that matter, cutting off funding to the South Vietnamese, thereby ensuring the fall of Saigon and the rise of Pol Pot’s murderous regime, ranks as the next biggest American foreign policy disaster.

Another American foreign policy disaster that accelerated the international jihadist movement was Bill Clinton’s decision to pull the American troops out of Somalia. John Murtha told Clinton to cut and run then, which bin Laden took as proof of America’s lack of will to fight a long war.

Carter, who also has been critical of U.S. military action in Iraq, said that since Albright was secretary of state, “there has been a reduction almost all over the world in trust and esteem by foreigners toward Americans.” He said much of it is “because of an unprecedented policy toward the utilization of military power.”

Carter said all previous presidents have said the United States would go to war only if its security was endangered, but that President Bush made it clear that there is a new policy of preemptive war.

What a dipstick. That said, Carter is a typical pacifist. Just like a typical pacifist, Carter doesn’t see the jihadists as a security risk. It’s amazing what passes as critical thinking amongst Democrats. This is a prime example of why we can’t give the levers of executive power to Democrats. They simply don’t believe that evil exists.

Another troubling aspect of Carter’s and Albright’s policies is that they put a higher priority on getting along with other nations than they worry about protecting us from further terrorist attacks. That ought to disgust American voters.

I’ll give Albright and the Democrats credit for one thing, though. They know how to stick to a mindless talking point. Last Sunday, Harry Reid called the Iraq War decision the worst foreign policy blunder. I count this as more proof that Reid, Carter and Albright are clueless about the GWOT.

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1. If America has “lost its moral authority” as the madam pointed out, it is only because socialists and their ilk have redefined the term to mean any lewd and lascivious act, any cowardly act, any act that absolves the actor from any responsibilty for any action whatsoever. This is especially true on the national scene and in dealing with other nations.

   As it was explained to me years ago, “The fear of God is the beginning of all understanding”, where the fear of God isn’t the fear that he WILL strike you down but that he can, but doesn’t out of love and grace. Foreign policy (the Reagan Principle specifically) should be seen in that light, and it should strike fear in the hearts of wrongdoers and those who would harm our nation.

   Comment by Carlos — February 23, 2007 @ 6:01 pm

2. Well, appeasement worked for France and Nazi-Germany, why shouldn’t it work for us with our enemies?

   Comment by The Gentle Cricket — February 23, 2007 @ 7:46 pm

3. Albright helped Clinton seel WMD components to China for cash in the ’90s - she is a fraud.

   Comment by Stupidsa — February 23, 2007 @ 7:57 pm