Commentary from the Mile High City
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Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Then, Again Sadly, DU has also given a forum for Madeline Albright to explain the world to us, as well. She was the honoree at the Korbel dinner, and maybe a few glasses of the stuff would have helped one sit through the speech. Albright's father, Josef Korbel, founded DU's Graduate School of International Studies, and served as its first Dean. Albright did have some nice words to say about Condoleeza Rice, also from Denver, but it was pretty downhill from there. She repeated the leftist platitudes about "ignorance, disease, and poverty" being the root causes of terrorism. This is a nice thought, but it fails both correlation tests: 1) there are many poor people who come to this country with hope and love, headed for entry-level jobs, rather than safe-houses full of bomb-making equipment, and 2) the terrorists come from predominantly middle-class or upper-class families, frequently with firsthand knowledge of the US and the West. I know of no evidence of widespread health problems among the September 11th hijackers. She also engages in a little outright intellectual dishonesty:
I haven't read of any of this in Iraq. I've read about a lot of it in Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. But Mrs. Albright singles out Iraq? Why, why would that be? Hmmm. "Every Arab and Muslim, every Chinese and Burmese, every North Korean and Cuban should know that America supports their right to live in freedom, and that we will support that right when, where and how we can." This from an administration that sent Hillary to kowtow at the Women's Rights Conference in Peking, signed an agreement with North Korea it never intended to enforce, and sent back every would-be Cuban refugee it could get its hands on. I am sick with disgust when I think that this woman was our Secretary of State. 
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