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On the war path with Samantha Power - Mercer
Rice backfill at the UN.Writing in The Nation, a magazine of the ultra-left, Tom Hayden has illustrated just how dangerous is Powers Responsibility to Protect doctrine. A former California state senator, Hayden is also a 60s flower-power peacenik, whose progressive pedigree can be traced back to Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Jane Fonda. Quite sure we should trust none of these people, but read on. According to Hayden, Power is an Irish internationalist; a humanitarian hawk who see[s] war as an instrument for achieving her liberal, even radical, values. She advocates American and NATO military intervention in humanitarian crises. As she sees it, The United States must be prepared to risk the lives of its soldiers to stop the threat of genocide. "Irish internationalist"....pretty much describes the lot. Hip to Powers hypocrisy, Hayden points out that like U2′s Bono, another Irish human rights activist, she has been less preoccupied by the human rights abuses inflicted by the British during the 30-year war in the northern part of her own country. Indeed, like her neoconservative philosophical clones, Power considers herself a redeemer of mankind but not, mind you, of her own kind. The author reporting on people leaving their country, how revealing. Power has still to scale the Senate Foreign Relations committee for confirmation. My guess is that the leggy fanatic will clear the hurdle by offering as confirmation quid pro quo a softer stance on, say, Israel. And voila, onward to Syria. Posted by: Thererong Slinelet1324 2013-06-07 |
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