CHIRAC’S MOJO

A smart, thorough and brutal profile of the chief weasel.

9/11 AND ALBRIGHT: Yes, it seems that September 11 changed everything for our former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright. According to Punditwatch, she

claimed that the battle against al Qaeda and resolving the “crisis” in North Korea was more pressing than Iraq, accusing the Administration of a “unidimensional foreign policy.” When host Tim Russert showed her bellicose comments she and President Clinton made against Iraq in 1998, Albright responded, “Things are different after 9-11.”

For Albright, the lesson of 9/11 was that we should be less concerned now about weapons of mass destruction in the most anti-American region on earth getting into the hands of terrorists. Don’t worry about Saddam. Do what we did after 1998: nothing. Look how well that turned out.