Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright swung through town for a conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu, more or less defending President Barack Obama’s recent speech on the conflict and placing the recent Arab uprisings on par with game-changing world events like the collapse of the Soviet Union.
An overflow crowd turned up at the New Orleans Museum of Art to hear the mayor talk international relations with Albright, also a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who spent hours among Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at Camp David in the 1990s as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Cabinet.