The website of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting has reported that former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that through the war in Iraq, America has lost its moral authority, and it would be up to the next American president to restore the "goodness of American power."
"I think that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy," Albright said Thursday, with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter at her side in one of a series of "conversations at the Carter center."
Carter said that since Albright's tenure as secretary of state, "there has been a reduction almost all over the world in trust and esteem by foreigners toward Americans."
Carter added all previous presidents have said America would go to war only if its security was endangered, but that President George W. Bush made it clear that there is a new policy of pre-emptive war.
Source: IRIBnews.ir, Iran, February 23, 2007
