Albright tends to sprinkle pixy dust upon events from her era, without much introspection. Prime causality for the decline of international influence over totalitarian regimes and genocides is the deterioration of the moral authority of both the United States and the United Nations in a furthering of US aims for dominant control and de facto empire. That decline has been radically accelerated under the neo-nazi thrusts of bush, but the direction was also pushed by Albright.

Ms Albright's idea of humanitarian interventions by international bodies to correct flagrant injustices is fine; the problem is that everyone agrees except when the intervention is to happen in their own country. Would her agree to a UN-led military intervention to free the ilegally imprisoned interns in Guantánamo?

Thoughtful article puts the Iraqi debacle in context of world politics. Highly recommended.

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. The author ignores most recent history and distorts what she does mention. She ignores the incredible corruption of the UN, althought during her term at State she wisely told President Clinton to ignore the UN regarding substantive issues. She ignores the record of Saddam Hussein, and the million Iraqs he had killed. She ignores the fact that terrorist incidents worldwide have dropped sharply in recent years and that Al Qaeda is ... More »

A well written piece of text. It expresses the concepts of international intervention in aid and military well from an ideological point of view. It shows both sides well, both in support of and criticism of interventionism.