[lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq

Joel Schalit managingeditor at tikkun.org
Mon May 1 17:57:04 PDT 2006


It definitely seems like the Democrats are pimping the God card in prep for the fall elections. Yck. Its also extremely insincere - trying to lure in Xtian voters in ways that they would never take seriously. Albright's an odd bird by background too - a Jew who converted to Catholicism etc.

Joel

On May 1, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Just back from a chatfest at the Council on Foreign Relations
>> featuring Madelein Albright - who's really high on god these days,
>> and thinks we need to take religion more seriously. Aside from
>> that stunningly original idea, she did pronounce the invasion of
>> Iraq the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history - worse
>> than Vietnam. She didn't offer any suggestions on what to do about
>> it, though.
>
> Oh yeah, she also made a big deal out of possible "left-right"
> alliances (she's the left part of that, ha ha, and named Sam
> Brownback as the right side) over things like human trafficking,
> religious freedom, and genocide. She noted that the Christians were
> banging down her door while she was Sec'y of State to lobby on
> Sudan, and she cheered yesterday's Save Darfur rally as a wonderful
> example of these cross-spectrum alliances. Beware of anything
> jointly cheered by Albright and Brownback I say.
>
> Doug
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