Madeleine Albright had blood on her hands: Analyst

Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as the US secretary of state, has the blood on her hands, said American political analyst and activist Myles Hoenig.

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on the US media coverage of the death of Albright.

Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two, died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

She served as American ambassador to the United Nations from 1993-1997 in US President Bill Clinton's administration.

Clinton then nominated her to become the first female secretary of state of the US and she served in that role from 1997-2001.

US President Joe Biden remembered Albright as “a force for goodness, grace, and decency—and for freedom.” She “defied convention and broke barriers again and again,” Biden said in a statement.

Former US President Barack Obama hailed her as a "champion for democratic values."

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies at 84

Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as the US secretary of state, died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

“In the United States we look at important issues only at surface level,” said Hoenig.

“Barack Obama made history by being the first Black President. Yet to condemn his policies meant you were a racist. To say he did so many bad things or couldn’t do what he wanted then the blame was squarely on the other side- the Republicans. You couldn’t look at his administration with objectivity without be called out.  Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman Supreme Court Justice. Was she good on women’s issues? She voted to maintain abortion rights but with further restrictions. But she was a woman and that’s all that mattered,” he added.   

“We come now to the death of Madeleine Albright. Hailed as the first woman Secretary of State. Everything else about her is secondary. That she was responsible for, and took pride in, the deaths of half a million innocent people in Iraq so that they could get their one former CIA operative on the gallows, will have no impact in all the hagiographies that will permeate the airwaves. Just like with Ronald Reagan’s death. Everyone came out of the woodworks, especially Democrats, to praise him rather than be honest about how horrible his administration was for world peace and domestic and economic programs here at home,” he said.

“Madeleine Albright served under Bill Clinton, a favorite of so many, yet they presided over the Belgrade bloodbath and the expansion of NATO to the Russian borders, among many other war atrocities. Flags will be at half-mast all over America. As the destruction of Ukrainian cities today is vilified, as it should be, nary a mention will be of Belgrade 1993-4 and destruction of Yugoslavia, which is lost in history to America’s short memory span, if not downright amnesia,” he concluded.

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