Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright reminds me very much of Thomas Friedman: they both are talented in making any topic of discussion or debate shallow and superficial, and this could be why people in the public relate to them and prefer them to other more serious pundits on foreign policy.  I was taking a graduate course on Soviet Foreign Policy at Georgetown in 1984 with Angela Stent and she invited Albright for a guest lecture.  It was such a joke and felt that Albright herself does not take herself seriously.  Reading her account of her experience in the Clinton administration confirmed my impression of her as a Thomas Friedman-like commentator. And who told her that she was funny? Maybe the same person who told Friedman that he was funny.