Word: krogh
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...most scathing recent criticism along these lines was particularly painful. Peter Krogh, who had been her close friend and mentor when he was dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service during her tenure there, wrote two weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal, "I cannot recall a time when our foreign policy was in less competent hands." The bombing of Iraq has only entrenched Saddam Hussein's power. The bombing of Serbia has likewise entrenched Milosevic and contributed to a refugee debacle. To make matters worse, these involvements have come at the expense of America's primary strategic...
More broadly, Krogh accused Albright and her colleagues of conducting a policy based on scolding other nations. "They instruct the Russians and the Japanese on their economics, the Chinese on their politics, the Iraqis on their military, the Serbs on their provinces, the Latin Americans on drugs and the U.N. on reform...It is a foreign policy of sermons and sanctimony accompanied by the brandishing of Tomahawks." The article, which Krogh had passed around in advance to fellow members of the foreign policy elite, set Washington buzzing. Albright, brittle about her image, was furious...
...Peter F. Krogh '58, then dean of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, hired Albright as a professor in international affairs and as director of the Women in Foreign Service Program...
...excellent faculty member," Krogh says. "With lots of energy and enthusiasm, she was like a pied piper...
...second outlet: the Great Decisions TV program, with Dean Krogh as host, on PBS. Scholars and policymakers would debate the foreign policy issues of the day, so Albright got a chance to practice her one-liners in an off-Broadway setting. Though its audience was small, it did attract Washington's policy wonks, and Albright began to be noticed...