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...mind-set is Munich," she has often said. "Most of my generation's was Vietnam...
...mind-set is Munich," Albright has often explained. "Most of my generation's was Vietnam." Albright's orientation is used to explain her willingness to confront bullies with force. But the Munich Conference in 1938 that gave Hitler the green light to annex one-third of Czechoslovakia carried many lessons beyond the dangers of appeasement, and one was surely that it is never wise to play from a position of weakness. Albright knew early on that you can't do a thing in foreign policy without power. So she didn't waste any time "establishing her presence," as an observer...
...mind-set is Munich." Translation: Albright operates from a visceral impulse to jump into trouble spots, with guns if necessary. But her approach to using force has never been set in stone. She opposed the Gulf War and now says she was wrong. She pushed to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, but has been sobered by that debacle. She advocated "assertive multilateralism" in Bosnia, which meant joining forces with the U.N. to impose a peace, but when that fuzzy "ism" became the butt of jokes, she dropped it. What's less clear is where the lessons of Munich next...
Margret Rey was born Margret Elizabeth Waldstein in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1906. She attended Bauhaus, the Dusseldorf Academy of Art and the University of Munich...
...would protect whom? The women joining an all-female army would probably hate men enough to obliterate them. I do understand that Ehrenreich intended to be amusing, but such fun at the expense of the majority of perfectly good soldiers of all stripes is definitely not appropriate. URSULA BRAUN Munich, Germany...