Jeane J. Kirkpatrick « The Opinion Mill

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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick « The Opinion Mill:


If Iraq is a train wreck, then Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who died yesterday at the age of 80, may rightly be called one of the engineers that put America on the track.
Not that she was involved directly in the planning or the execution — of course not. But as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985, Kirkpatrick was one of the earliest and most forceful proponents of the cowboy foreign policy thinking that has America mired in bloody quicksand in the Middle East. Kirkpatrick was in many ways the classic neoconservative: intelligent, articulate, bluntly outspoken, and deeply, almost comically wrong about the world.If Iraq is a train wreck, then Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who died yesterday at the age of 80, may rightly be called one of the engineers that put America on the track.

Not that she was involved directly in the planning or the execution — of course not. But as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985, Kirkpatrick was one of the earliest and most forceful proponents of the cowboy foreign policy thinking that has America mired in bloody quicksand in the Middle East. Kirkpatrick was in many ways the classic neoconservative: intelligent, articulate, bluntly outspoken, and deeply, almost comically wrong about the world.