Madeleine Albright - Articles - RealClearPolitics

What Next for Ukraine?

Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500

When President Obama and European allies meet next week, they can begin forming a meaningful response to Vladimir Putin’s adventurism. This new strategy should note that Putin’s view of the world is rooted in dangerous fictions. Churchill said Russia was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Under Putin, Russia’s rhetoric can be described as a fantasy inside a delusion wrapped in a tissue of lies. He may believe that Ukrainians are fascists intending to attack Russians, but it is not true. Ukraine’s interim government is widely representative, and no outside observer has found evidence of a campaign of violence against Russians.

Romney's Foreign Policy Is Unfocused

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500

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ORG XMIT: BKM106 U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division stand near their armored vehicles before they start their journey home at Contingency Operating Site Kalsu, about 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. The U.S. has...

Vaclav Havel: The Outsider in Power

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Madeleine Albright was secretary of state from 1997 to 2001.

Nov. 24, 1989: Prague’s storied Wenceslas Square swarmed with demonstrators chanting slogans and waving signs that read “Posledni Zvoneni,” the last bell. Activists rattled the keys in their pockets, emulating the sound of a bell tolling to mark the end of four decades of communist rule. On a balcony overlooking the crowd stood a 53-year-old man who had been arrested that year and would, within a month, be president. Almost alone among his countrymen, he had predicted that this moment of triumph would arrive not in spite of the repression...

Obama's Muslim Speech

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Pride in our Past, Hope in the Future

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600