Architects of Disaster
Ever hear that joke about Kennedy School of Government at Harvard being the place for "war criminals on their way up and war criminals on their way down"?
That's how I felt about this picture in the paper today.
President Bush Thursday with present and former secretaries of state and defense. From left: Harold Brown, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, James A. Baker III, Colin L. Powell, James R. Schlesinger, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Mr. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, George P. Shultz, Melvin R. Laird, Robert S. McNamara, Madeleine K. Albright, Alexander M. Haig Jr., Frank C. Carlucci, William J. Perry and William S. Cohen.
Some people are complaining that the Democrats who were invited to the meeting, which was supposedly to offer Bush advice on how to better handle U.S. foreign policy, especially in Iraq, didn't offer much criticism.
Duh.
Robert McNamara?! The man who sent thousands of American soldiers to fight an unwinnable, unjust war of his own?
Madeleine Albright?! The woman who as Secretary of State was confronted on national television by the human cost of the US sanctions on Iraq--"a half million children have died"--told interviewer Leslie Stahl, "We think the price is worth it."
Posted by msifry at January 6, 2006 06:24 PM