Madeline Albright, Clinton surrogate, criticizes Bernie Sanders on his grasp of foreign affairs yet, in the view of many, she joins Henry Kissinger (also a Clinton supporter) in the ranks of United States officials who are labeled as war criminals.
In May of 1996, U.S. ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright, was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, the following questions about the economic sanctions against Iraq:
We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
To which Ambassador Albright responded,
I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.
This callous indifference to the lives of half a million children qualifies her as a war criminal in my view. At the very least, it shows how all the knowledge and experience in the world matters not at all when judgement is lacking.
The Iraq sanctions were draconian and were designed to put pressure on the population with the insane idea that the people, powerless as they were, would somehow rise up and dethrone Saddam. The book of prohibited items included lights to treat jaundiced newborns who died without them, leukemia drugs and a host of life’s necessities that were characterized as “dual purpose”.
Another quote from Global Policy Forum is worth noting:
The following January Albright was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Clinton's secretary of state. In her opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was considering her appointment, she said,
We will insist on maintaining tough U.N. sanctions against Iraq unless and until that regime complies with relevant Security Council resolutions.
Madeline Albright states that there is a special place in hell for women who do not vote for the female candidate.
If there is such a special place in hell for the most heinous of crimes, I doubt it is peopled with women who voted outside their gender but women who zealously defended sanctions that caused the deaths of half a million innocent children under the age of five to suit a political goal.
Oddly enough, there is this quote from Madeline Albright which supports Senator Bernie Sander’s view that the Iraq war is the “greatest disaster in American foreign policy”.