the truth about Kosovo -- Mad Albright

The Truth About Kosovo — The Truth: Mad Albright
"What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?"
Maddy Albright

To Colin Powell who's later response was "I thought I would have an aneuryism."

I feel really sorry for the Serb people, who are good people -- we have no fight with the Serb people. I just wonder how long they're going to put up with this, or his military. I just feel really sorry. I lived in Yugoslavia when I was a child, and I speak some Serbo-Croatian, and I feel really sorry for them. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright Interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" Washington, DC, March 28, 1999 As released by the Office of the Spokesman U.S. Department of State

Perception

The Truth

2 years ago, while just taking the reigns as Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright learned for the first time that she was ethnically Jewish; that her grandparents and a close female cousin parished in the horror of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz; that she fled her homeland as part of NAZI ethnic cleansing when she was a young child.
Source: Madeleine Albright -- A Twentieth Century Odyssey, Michael Dobbs. New Yorker magazine, Mar 29, 1999, p. 50. An article on Dobbs' book to be released this month, Double Identity.

Webmaster's Note: I would think that Maddy Albright would have a lot of pain in the revelation of her life being something other than she had grown up to believe. The shocking news must have caused her much grief. One of the seven stages of grief is retaliation. Albright has called Milosevic "Hitler." Perhaps she believes she is fighting and retaliating against the people who killed her close relatives, and indeed had a stake on her own life. Unfortunately, the situation is not the same, try as "they" might to make us believe so.

Madeleine Albright Quotes: Source listed at bottom

"What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" 1993. To Colin Powell who's later response was "I thought I would have an aneuryism"
"Kofi, we don't need negotiators running all over the place." To UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan when he suggested a UN negotiating team. Later she said, "We've got to talk to Kofi again to make sure he doesn't have negotiators proliferating."
"Slobo's feeling the heat."
"Up until the start of the conflict, the military served to back up our diplomacy. Now, our diplomacy serves to back up our military."
To Russian negotiator Igor Ivanov, "You have to agree to the word security; Igor, will you make me happy and just say yes to that?"
His response: "Yes, but when will you make me happy? I keep waiting for my turn."
"I cannot recall a time when our foreign policy was in less competent hands." Peter Krogh, Wall Street Journal. "They instruct the Russians and the Japanese on their economics, the Chinese on their politics, the Iraquis on their military, the Serbs on their provinces, the Latin Americans on drugs and the UN on reform... It is a foreign policy of sermons and sanctimony accompanied by the brandishing of Tomahawks."
"She has also been developing a long-term strategy for the Balkans: a mini-Marshall Plan to promote lasting stability through economic rebuilding." Time Magazine, May 17, 1999, p.34 pp. 4.

Webmaster's note: One can't rebuild an economy unless that economy has first been destroyed; thus the intensive, no let-up policy of this initiative. No diplomacy on earth will stop the bombing until we have destroyed enough to warrant our rebuilding the area.
"I think threats to our national interest come from a variety of problems, [including] the creation of chaos and instability that come about as a result of ethnnic cleansing... Just because you can't act everywhere doesn't mean you don't act anywhere. We're evoloving these rules. There's not a doctrine that really sets this forth in an organized way yet."
"I feel that we did the right thing, and I am proud of the role I played in it."
Source: Time Magazine, May 17, 1999. "Madeleine's War."
I think that there are many things that are in it for us, starting from a small picture to a larger one. First of all, I think that this area of Europe is of great interest to the United States. It's near the Middle East; it's near the center of Europe. We believe that it is good for America to have a stable, secure, free and open Europe.
Also, I believe that Americans are repelled by this kind of barbarism and the horror of not doing something about this. If we do something about it at this phase, when it is still relatively contained, it is better than what happened when we have to do a larger job.
QUESTION: Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Minister said, I believe, he called it one of the blackest days in the post-war history of Europe. Do you think there's any possibility that the Russians may somehow try to intervene here, either by supplying the Serbs with weapons or, in fact, by trying to introduce in some way their own forces?
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: I think it is a black day when you see this kind of barbarism perpetrated by a dictator like Milosevic. The Russians, we have spent a lot of time talking to them --
QUESTION: He was talking about the United States and NATO intervening, not the Serbs.
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: Well, but this was not started by NATO; this was started by Milosevic, and they know that.
I think that the Russians themselves have an opportunity now to put themselves on the right side. I can't imagine that they want to go into the 21st Century on the side of a barbaric act such as this.
Source: Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright Interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" Washington, DC, March 28, 1999 As released by the Office of the Spokesman U.S. Department of State Link.