Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has yet another Bush-bashing and self-serving column out in today's New York Times. She blames the Iraq War for the  junta in Myanmar's refusal to allow emergency relief supplies to reach its people. Albright claims that the Iraq War has had such repercussions that the concept of national sovereignty is now being used as a bar to shield nations led by dictators from outside intervention. She fails to recognize that Burma for many years-including during the Clinton years-had sealed itself off from the rest of the world. She also fails to see that throughout history nations have shielded themselves from outside intervention-despite occasional natural (or man-made) disasters. How about Albania during the decades after World War Two? How about the nations behind the Iron Curtain? How about China under Mao? How about North Korea (which has made itself into a modern Hermit Kingdom) whose people suffered from mass...(Read Full Post)