Caused the Death of Half a Million Iraqi Children: Madeleine Albright, First Female US Secretary of State, Dies

Aged 84, the first female US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, has died of cancer, Wednesday, March 13, 2022, her death was confirmed by her family’s post on her official Twitter account.

Madeleine was chosen as America’s top diplomat in 1996,by President Bill Clinton, in addition to being his ambassador to the United Nations.

At the time, she was “the highest-ranking woman in the history” of the American government, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Despite her popularity, Madeleine had never planned to be the next American president, simply because she was a native of Prague.

Following her death, Western websites and newspapers have been drawing the picture of the strong, honest, and helpful woman who had nothing to achieve but spreading peace and love.

However, fewer are those who revealed the murky side of Madeleine; she was actually ready to kill thousands of people just to preserve US interests.

 

Died Of Cancer

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, has died at age 84, her family announced in a statement on her official Twitter account, yesterday, March 23, 2022.

“We are heartbroken to announce that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th U.S. Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today.”

Albright also announced the cause of death was cancer, saying: “The cause was cancer. She was surrounded by family and friends. We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.”

Shortly after President Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993, Madeleine Albright was chosen as US ambassador to the United Nations, in addition to being nominated as secretary of state three years later.

The Guardian mourned her in a report published by Godfrey Hodgson, saying: “It fell to her to cope with the painful dilemmas presented for the US by the breakup of Yugoslavia and the rise of Islamic opposition in the Middle East.”

After fulfilling her role in Bill Clinton’s administration, Madeleine “could not take the place that office usually confers as third in succession to the president” because she was not American, according to the same report.

 

Family and Life

Madeleine Albert had been a European refugee and she came to the job relying on her academic background in the study of international relations, not through business or politics.

After becoming secretary of state, Albright said she became aware of her Jewish background.

Her family returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II but escaped again to the United States in 1948, after the Communists held power.

Madeleine and her family settled first  in Denver, where her father got a job at the University of Denver.

Condoleezza Rice was one of her father’s best students, a young woman who would later succeed his daughter as secretary of state; she was the first Black woman to fill that office.

In 159, Madeleine Albright graduated from Wellesley College. She first worked as a journalist, and then, she studied international relations at Columbia University. There, she got her master’s degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1976.

During the Carter administration, Albright worked for the National Security Council and advised Democrats on foreign policy before Clinton’s election.

In 1993, he nominated her as US ambassador to the United Nations.

In 1959, Madeleine Albright married the journalist Joseph Albright, a descendant of Chicago’s Medill-Patterson newspaper dynasty, after bringing three daughters, Madeleine and Joseph divorced in 1983.

 

Career

While being in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright oversaw the economic strangulation of Iraq after the second Gulf War.

When she was asked about her opinion of the killing of more than half a million Iraqi children, she simply replied: “We believe the fruits of the siege are worth it.”

Her statement, lacking any human feelings, was in fact the compass that led to the essence and background of the American and British policy towards Iraq, this is what Anthony Arnove said in his book, Iraq Under Siege.

According to the same book, Albright's usual bluntness could not hide the real motives under the veil of diplomatic language: the United States does not care about the fate of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi children, but rather it is interested in strictly carrying out the implementation of its foreign policy aimed at the preservation of America's interests in the Middle East first and foremost.

The Syrians also know Albright well, as she was the one who oversaw the process of transitioning the power to Bashar al-Assad after his father's death in 2000.

She told reporters in Damascus at the time that she saw very encouraging signs of Bashar's desire to follow the path of his father.

She added that Bashar seemed to have great determination and was ready to fulfill his duty.

Madeleine Albright also oversaw secret and public rounds of meetings between the Assad militia government and Israel, the discussions in which Washington and Tel Aviv gave legitimacy to the rule of the Assad family in exchange for the silence of the fronts and the undeclared concession of the Golan.