{"id":379,"date":"2003-10-18T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-18T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:34:54","slug":"379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/18\/379\/","title":{"rendered":"Albright Now, Baby, She’s Albright Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like her boss<\/a>, “Mad” Albright is campaigning against<\/strike> attacking Bush for his foreign policy<\/a>. Because I give her point of view these days the same credibility I would give an Internet Troll, I am going to give her remarks the corrective treatment favored by Frank J.<\/a> and my beautiful wife<\/a> by rewriting<\/strike> “cleaning up” her remarks:<\/p>\n

US President George W. Bush’s foreign policy “is what we should have been doing in the Clinton adminstration all along<\/b>.”<\/p>\n

“America is much stronger than<\/b> a multilateral system, they better<\/b> be on the our<\/b> side, work with us<\/b>. Or else<\/b> it’s America versus the others.”<\/p>\n

She said that UN chief Kofi Annan, who has come out against a US draft resolution on Iraq currently before the UN Security Council, was the “best secretary general since the creation, for what that’s worth<\/b>” of the world body.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All right, that’s getting dull. What could she have said to characterize herself and her peers properly?<\/p>\n

“It’s not<\/b> difficult to be in France and criticise my government. But I’m doing so because I think I am a Dixie Chick because in the Clinton administration, we had the depth and breadth of pop stars<\/b>.”<\/p>\n

On Iraq, Albright said “I fear that there really is chaos there. We don’t know what’s going to happen. One or two Americans a day are killed. We should have sent our soldiers on costly-but-safe excursions that outlasted their exit date by a decade or more, like Bosnia<\/b>.”<\/p>\n

Even if ridding Iraq of its “terrible” leader had its merits, Albright added: “I don’t understand why the war happened now. I would have liked to see us concentrate on Afghanistan because this Karzai guy is a mad tyrant and needs to be overthrown<\/b>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to do these things, you understand, to keep this vein in my forehead to keep from throbbing painfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like her boss, “Mad” Albright is campaigning against attacking Bush for his foreign policy. Because I give her point of view these days the same credibility I would give an Internet Troll, I am going to give her remarks the corrective treatment favored by Frank J. and my beautiful wife by rewriting “cleaning up” her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21897,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/21897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}