Albright, Kissinger and the illusion of ‘moral values’

Albright, Kissinger and the illusion of ‘moral values’

Henry Kissinger is forever loathed by liberal America for being not only complicit but also for being practically responsible for most of the atrocities the United States committed between the late 1960s and early 1970s in Vietnam and Cambodia. Yet, US top diplomats continue to be guided by his foreign policy principles, which may very well have been shaped literally by Machiavelli’s The Prince. The German-born right wing thinker and author Kissinger served between 1969 and 1973 as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under former Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. However, he has had disciples from the other party, the Democrats. One of those devotees was Madeleine Albright, the former United States Secretary of State who died last week, of cancer at the age of 84. For seven years, between 1993 and 2000, she was a key architect of American foreign policy and one of the most powerful women in the world. She served as the US ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 until 1997, when Democrat President Bill Clinton, described by his Republican rivals as a ‘bleeding heart liberal’, nominated her to become the first female Secretary of State in US history. During her