re: How did someone as naive and ignorant as Madeleine Albright ever serve?

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because they obviously weren't enough to keep her from making a series of monstrous decisions that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the most innocent, for no other reason than serving the American Empire. May she rot in hell.

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First of all, those figures seem highly disputed to this day, and frankly they don't seem reasonable anyways. That was less than 6 years of sanctions, and despite being under a murderous dictator, the sanctions themselves were resulting in the deaths of 100,000 children per year? And although there was a war in that time, the population grew at similar rates in the decade from 87 to 97 as the decades before. And the sanctions began even before she was in any position of power.

So her response was terrible, but I think directly and exclusively blaming her, or anybody that was not dictator in charge, for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children because of a (albeit misguided) sanctions (as opposed to direct intervention) is a bit exteme.