Madeline Allbright speaks out

I happened to meet Madeline Allbright on the trip to the US.
I didn't have the chance to speak to her (and I would have been too shy anyway)

She speaks out, and loud:

What we're trying to do right now is to get as many people on our side as possible. That after all is fundamental to the U.S. national interest — to get other countries to agree with what we're doing and to be supportive.
But where it has gotten off track is when the choice has been framed in a way that narrows the numbers of people that can support us.
Right after 9/11, President Bush was saying we were against the terrorists.
And so people who were definitely opposed to seeing airplains fly into the Twin Towers, who were against acts of terror, could be on our side.
But when the choice was enlarged or changed by the President saying you need to be with us on Iraq or what we're doing on Iran or in other parts of world, it became much harder for other people to be with us. We get into problems when there's an absolute definition of what it is that one has to agree with to be on the side of U.S.

Interesting article

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