Madeleine Albright was a tough-talking diplomat in an administration that hesitated to involve itself in the two biggest foreign policy crises of the 1990s – the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
During Clinton’s first term, many of the administration’s top foreign policy experts did not want to get involved because they vividly remembered how the United States became bogged down in Vietnam. She once upset a Pentagon chief by asking why the military maintained more than 1 million men and women under arms if they never used them.
The painful lessons learnt in Rwanda and Bosnia served the US well in Kosovo, when Washington saw the more powerful Serbs begin a programme of ethnic cleansing of Albanians. Nato responded with an 11-week campaign of airstrikes in 1999 that extended to Belgrade. Born Marie Jana Korbelova in Prague on 15 May 1937, her family fled in 1939 to London when Germany occupied Czechoslovakia. She attended school in Switzerland at age 10 and adopted the name Madeleine.
“It is quite remarkable that this Czech émigré professor has trained two secretaries of state,” Albright told the New York Times in 2006.
How to whitewash history & the people who make it. Heard of Iraqi sanctions? More than 500 000 children dead? Heard of Rwandan Genocide? DM has become nothing more than a liberal American mouthpiece. Albright was an icon of white imperial feminism.
How on earth was she a feminist icon? She was a war criminal and a genocidal maniac.
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The part that will never be mentioned in her obituary.😁