Samantha Power --- an imperialist, married to a jew, making a killing off Obama.
next ... On Jun 7, 9:04 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > **· > **ABOUT<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1...> > **** > > **** > > **· > **BOOKS<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > **** > > **** > > **· > **AUTHORS<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > **** > > **** > > **· > **MERCHANDISE<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > **** > > This is an article I have just posted on > melaniephillips.com<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > **** > > A Perfect Match**** > > And so it came to pass. Samantha Power has finally made it into the top > tier of the Obama administration. > Power is reputed to be one of President Obama’s closest advisers. Until > now, she was the relatively lowly director of multilateral affairs at the > National Security Council. With her > reported<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > imminent > appointment as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, what I predicted at > the beginning of the Obama presidency has now happened: that in a second > term, he would promote to the front rank those who were so extreme and so > dangerous to the well-being of America and the civilised world that in his > first term, so as not to frighten the horses, he would keep them in the > lower ranks out of sight. > > Well, we should all be frightened by Samantha Power. > > She is the living embodiment of the way in which ‘human rights’ have > morphed into their absolute opposite, and instead of providing a protection > against tyranny have been turned into the anvil upon which freedom and > justice are being smashed. > > A supposed expert on genocide, having argued that nations have a moral > obligation to prevent it, she was asked in 2002 as a ‘thought experiment’ > what she would advise the US President to do about the Israel-Palestinian > problem ‘if one party or another [starts] looking like they might be moving > toward genocide’. She responded to this already disturbingly loaded > question: > > ‘...what we need is a willingness to put something on the line in helping > the situation. Putting something on the line might mean *alienating a > domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may > more crucially mean sacrificing — or investing, I think, more than > sacrificing — billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military, but > actually investing in the new state of Palestine*, in investing the > billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have > to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a > meaningful military presence. Because it seems to me at this stage (and > this is true of actual genocides as well, and not just major human rights > abuses, which were seen there), you have to go in as if you’re serious, you > have to put something on the line. > > ‘Unfortunately, imposition of a solution on unwilling parties is dreadful. > It’s a terrible thing to do, it’s fundamentally undemocratic. But, sadly, > we don’t just have a democracy here either, we have a liberal democracy. > There are certain sets of principles that guide our policy, or that are > meant to, anyway. It’s essential that some set of principles becomes the > benchmark, rather than a deference to [leaders] who are fundamentally > politically destined to destroy the lives of their own people. And by that > I mean what Tom Friedman has called “Sharafat.” [Sharon/Arafat] I do think > in that sense, both political leaders have been dreadfully irresponsible. > And, unfortunately, it does require external intervention’ [my emphasis]. > > Clearly, despite the careful nods to a (disgusting) moral equivalence Power > was not talking about invading the disputed territories beyond Israel’s > borders to prevent the Palestinians from committing genocide or major human > rights abuses against Israel by wiping out the Jewish national homeland -- > an aim to which their leadership remains committed in word and deed. > > No, she was talking about invading Israel to prevent a genocide, or major > human rights abuses, (her language wasn’t clear, but the point is the > same), against the Palestinians -- something which, in any rational > universe, not only could not possibly be laid at Israel’s door but also > held out the possibility that Israel might commit atrocities against people > who themselves make Israel the victim of precisely such atrocities (and > indeed, commit them regularly against other Palestinians). > > She also suggested that defending Israel was not a cause that should be > dear to all Americans and indeed all decent people everywhere, nor that the > great majority of Americans do indeed thus support Israel, but that the > only people who might be alienated by invading Israel would be American > Jews who exercised tremendous political and financial power over American > politics. > > Subsequently she said of these comments that she couldn’t remember what she > had said and didn’t understand what she had meant. > > Maybe a clue lies in what she told the New Statesman during Obama’s first > presidential campaign: > > 'So much of it is about: "Is he going to be good for the Jews?" ' > > Or when she bemoaned the tendency of US policymakers > > ‘to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate > Israeli tactics...’ > > Failing to understand herself seems to be a persistent problem beyond this > amnesia about her own bigotry. In March 2008, she > called<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > Hillary > Clinton > > ‘a monster...the amount of deceit she has put forward is really > unattractive.’ > > Later she > said<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > of > these remarks: > > ‘Of course I regret them...I can’t even believe they came out of my mouth.' > > Here are some of her other activities to date. > > In April 2003 she signed a Statement on Cuba, initiated by the Democratic > Socialists of America member Leo Casey calling for the lifting of trade > sanctions against Cuba. > > Along with Susan Rice (the former UN ambassador, now appointed Obama’s > National Security Adviser, heaven help us) and Hillary Clinton, the former > Secretary of State, Power is > considered<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > a > key architect of the disastrous Libyan intervention. > > And despite her advocacy of attack or invasion to prevent threatened > genocides, she has > sneered<http://melaniephillips.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae169cb0bf1d...> > at > concerns about the race to build a nuclear bomb by Iran, which has > repeatedly threatened genocide against the Jews of Israel, as a figment of > the war- mongering Republican imagination. > > Samantha Power and the UN are thus a perfect match.**** > > ** ** -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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