One would have to be cynical indeed—and I am not such—to enjoy the dilemma of Samantha Power, who once advocated U.S. intervention to avert whatever even looked like genocide at the drop of a hat, and who is now, as head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, presiding over what looks an awful lot…
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Samantha Power’s narrow tailoring becomes increasingly unraveled
You may not remember, though I obviously do, the language that Samantha Power, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, used to try to sell the American people on President Obama’s “plan” to use military force to persuade Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad to behave himself: On the one hand, we Americans share a desire,…
Samantha Power and the art of looking away
(Editor’s note. Sometimes I write ‘em short, and sometimes I can’t shut up. This is one of the latter occasions.) Several hundred news cycles ago, Samantha Power’s autobiography/memoir The Education of an Idealist was in the news. Well, I am nothing if not slow, so I am just getting caught up with Samantha, who really…
Over 100 innocent children slaughtered in Pakistan. Is that “iconically heartbreaking” enough for Samantha Power? And, if so, what does she intend to do about it?
Surely there’s a “moderate” rebel group we can send arms to, isn’t there? Perhaps we can declare a “no fly zone” of some sort, which we can use as an excuse for further involvement, the way we did in Libya, which, if we’re really lucky, could lead to some boots on the ground thing. Any…
Samantha Power, presumably not a biologist
Over at the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has a fascinating though not very encouraging long-read re Samantha Power, our UN ambassador and President Obama’s whom-shall-we-invade-next gal about town. Amidst much seriousness, Osnos also records this scrap from Samantha about how refreshing it is to get out of DC and into the field (in this case,…
Samantha Power, definitely a casuist extraordinaire
Recently (well, yesterday), I commented on a long article in the New Yorker by Evan Osnos on Samantha Power, our ambassador to the UN, whom I described unkindly as “President Obama’s whom-shall-we-invade-next gal about town”, making further fun of her (as who would not?) for not knowing that plants “breathe” carbon dioxide rather than oxygen….