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Another
Axis
Rogue war.
By
NR Editors
From the February 25, 2002, issue of National
Review
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 ush's
address was a fine speech, and as Daniel Henninger remarked in the
Wall Street Journal, it is impossible to imagine any top Democrat
giving it. Indeed, in the days after the speech, former secretary
of state Madeleine Albright was on the airwaves saying it was a "big
mistake" for Bush to call Iran, Iraq, and North Korea an "axis
of evil." It was a mistake, apparently, because it gave the Europeans
heartburn — or at least gave the previous administration's foreign-policy
team heartburn. Albright, let's not forget, was the official who decided
to replace the phrase "rogue states" with the more anodyne
"states of concern" — as though North Korea were some
misunderstood teenager. Albright's other notable contribution to the
foreign-policy debate since September 11 has been to criticize the
first Bush administration for not toppling Saddam Hussein. Never mind
that she opposed the Gulf War at the time, served in an administration
that left every aspect of U.S. policy toward Iraq weaker than it had
found it, and — she has recently informed us — opposes toppling
Saddam now. Albright and her colleagues have earned their place in
the axis of incompetence. |
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