Georgetown Faculty Object to Renaming Foreign Affairs School After Madeleine Albright A petition to stop Georgetown University from renaming its Walsh School of Foreign Service after the late Secretary of State Madeleine Albright due to her ties to "gross human rights violations" has received over 1,300 signatures from faculty, students and, alumni, according to the far-left organizers spearheading the campaign.
The objections could sink the proposal, currently under consideration by Georgetown’s administration, to rename the school in honor of Albright, the first female secretary of state who passed away last year.
Critics claim that Albright, who served under the Clinton administration, "supported some of the U.S. government’s most devastating interventions in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South Eastern Europe."
"By moving ahead with this project, the University would honor a name associated with gross human rights violations," said the petition.
Protestors say that Albright oversaw the Clinton administration’s sanctions against Iraq, which were imposed in response to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s buildup of weapons stockpiles and refusal to cooperate with international arms inspectors. Hussein’s lawless actions led to the death of half a million Iraqi children under the sanctions.
"When asked many years later to comment on the half a million Iraqi children who died as a consequence of the drastic sanctions imposed on Iraq during her tenure, Madeleine Albright’s answer was ‘the price was worth it,’" said the petition. "These facts are well known among the SFS faculty, students, and alumni, and suggest that a renaming would be met with considerable unease and opposition in the School."
Georgetown University President John DeGioia is expected to make a final decision on the renaming soon...........
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