Via Drudge, Yahoo News informs us that the
former Secretary of State, unembarassed by her complicity as a board member in secretly
paying millions to the president of the New York Stock Exchange, is trying to earn a
few extra bucks in France by criticizing America.
"America is much stronger in a multilateral system, we must be on the
same side, work with other people in the world. It shouldn't be America
versus the others," Albright said, speaking in French.
"It's difficult to be in France and criticise my government. But I'm
doing so because Bush and the people working for him have a foreign
policy that is not good for America, not good for the world," she said.
In an interview with the Europe 1 station Albright heavily criticised
the actions of the Republican leadership that replaced the Democratic
administration she worked for, and notably the "chaos" that reigns in
Iraq.
I don't see how anyone can say she is patriotic. Going to an unfriendly foreign
country and pandering to them by criticizing one's own country is about as unpatriotic
as one can get, short of taking up arms or selling secrets. If she isn't unpatriotic,
who is, after all? Or is it possible for anyone to do anything legal that counts as
unpatriotic? I wonder if even the Nazi sympathizers in England or France made public
criticism of their governments in foreign countries in the 1930's. And she has quite
a bit of nerve appearing in public at all, given her involvement in the NYSE scandal.
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