Iraq worst disaster for US foreign policy-Albright

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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Thursday the war in Iraq would go down in history as the worst disaster in U.S. foreign policy.

President George W. Bush has squandered the moral authority established by former President Jimmy Carter in his presidency when he pursued a foreign policy that promoted human rights as a central goal, Albright said during a public conversation with the former president at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

"I think that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy because we have lost the element of the goodness of 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," she said.


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[Poiuyt]

1. It will take more than the next president to restore America

It will take about ten Roosevelts in a row to undo what Bush has done

[MannyGoldstein]

3. And What Congress Has Allowed Him To Do

!!!!!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. How about our foreign policy regarding Iran?

Think this could trump Iraq very easily if we don't reign in the cabal...

[BayCityProgressive]

4. I wonder what has killed more

the war or the sanctions Albright loved so much in the 90s?

[PLF]

5. What goodness? Like the kind we displayed in El Salvador and Nicaragua? Chile?

Viet Nam? It's time to give up the notion of American exceptionalism.