In his documentary “Backstage at the Edge of Power,” Dror Moreh explores US foreign policy over the past few decades with those who were there. How did our world become what it is today?
What are you going to save our soldiers for, Colin, asks Madeleine, and Colin replies: Our soldiers are not tin soldiers… There is a certain casualness in this exchange, but it reflects the big question of world politics, which is as burning today as it was then. Madeleine, that is Madeleine Albright – she was US Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 under Bill Clinton – and Colin, that is Colin Powell, four-star general and then Secretary of State under George W. Bush, 2001 to 2005.