Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Feb 26, 2008.

Here are a few quotes from Part 1 of her interview:

"We are going to face the most difficult presidency in a long time.
"I have never seen the world in such a mess.
"The next President will have to deal with how to end the War in Iraq.
"I think [the War in Iraq] will go down in history as the greatest disaster in American Foreign Policy.
"It is going to be very important that the next president systematically gets the troops out and actually has a surge in diplomacy.

In Part 2 Madeleine Albright disputes the term "Islamic Terrorists" and then she states clearly who she supports for President.

Here is Part 1 (the interesting political stuff starts about halfway around the 3 minute mark):



Here is Part 2:



I agree with almost everything she says in this interview.

Lunchtime Chat: Apple & Iraq

Today at lunch we talked (predictably) about Apple and Iraq.

The lunch opened with "What do you think about the new MacBook and MacBook Pro computers?". [I like the multi-touchpad on the Pro but I thought the upgrade to the Santa Rosa chipset that allowed full access to all 4 Gigabytes of memory was more exciting that yesterdays change to the penryn processers.]
Then I was asked "Have you bought your iPhone yet?" and that started a silly discussion about the religion of Mac and ended when I said "if I was elected president that I would take the oath of office with my hand over a MacBook Air or an iPhone." I like to tease me too! :)

But we got back to a much more interesting discussion when someone asked "Did you watch the debate last night?". This started a rapid chain of topics that flowed something like this:
Clinton vs Obama
Democrats vs McCain
McCain and the Iraq war
Exit stratagies from Iraq
Turky into Iraq
Splitting up Iraq (Kurds in north, then Shia/Sunni, ...)
Splitting up Germany
North/South Korea
soft/hard landing of North Korea
China's involvement with North/South Korea
China's involvement in the middle east
The global escalation of military forces to control oil and other resources
...and back to our current choices for President

At which point I said "Our current choices for President were like asking me if I want a regular Big Mac Meal or the Super Size? Where are my other choices!". So I finished my lunch of salmon and steamed vegetables, and we went back to work.