America in the World

I'm gonna be at this conference sponsored by the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation today. I'm told there's going to be wifi right there, so the blogging should continue uninterrupted.

Comments

Hmmm.

1) The opening speaker is Madeleine Albright. Anyone remember her 1996 60 Minutes Interview?

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it."
Ref: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084

Bin Ladin later cited the deaths of those children as one of the three justifications for war on the US. (A fact carefully ignored by the 911 Commission )

Given Sept 11, Maybe Matthew could ask Madeleine if she still thinks those deaths were worth it.
Or maybe he could ask Madeleine to define "terrorism".

2) And the closing speaker is Sandy Berger.

Which raises an interesting question: Is that bulge in Sandy's pants a set of classified documents stolen from the National Archives? Or is Sandy just happy to see Madeleine?
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Berger
section "Convicted of mishandling classified terror documents"

3) Gee, I wonder why I never get invited to these things?

Posted by Don Williams | June 12, 2007 8:22 AM

Maybe MY can ask Gen. Clark what does he think chances of war with Iran are now. Given that BushCo. dumped Gen. Pace.

Posted by Joe Klein's conscience | June 12, 2007 9:10 AM