Syria: Samantha Power deployed to convince liberals of case for war

The London Telegraph ^ | September 6, 2013 | Raf Sanchez in Washington

[2ndDivisionVet]

The White House today deployed Samantha Power, the former human rights activist turned UN ambassador, to try to convince President Barack Obama's liberal base to support strikes against Syria.

Speaking at the Centre for American Progress, a prominent liberal think tank, Ms Power acknowledged "how ambivalent Americans are" at the prospect of another Middle Eastern conflict but argued there is "something different" about chemical warfare which demanded action.

Ms Power worked her way through a list of progressive objections to Mr Obama's plan for intervention, saying: "Those of us who are arguing for the limited use of force must justify our position, accepting responsibility for the risks and potential consequences of action."

She insisted that the US had "exhausted the alternatives" to war, saying that all efforts to engage the Syrians directly and through intermediaries like Iran, Russia and the UN had failed.

Ms Power also addressed concerns that Mr Obama, a president elected partly on his opposition to the Iraq war, was about to follow George W Bush's path of launching military action without the blessing of the UN.

She said Russian support for Bashar al-Assad had "paralyzed" the UN Security Council and blocked even a press statement signaling the global body's disapproval of the civilians death in Damascus on August 21.....

[bkopto]

She has the look of a true believer.

Wife of the nefarious Cass Sunstein.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Her heart might be more into it if Obama was sending her out to convince people that the U.S. should be bombing Israel.

Good point.

[montag813]

“Responsibility to protect” Obama’s ass.

[Popman]

"Those of us who are arguing for the limited use of force must justify our position, accepting responsibility for the risks and potential consequences of action."

Can anyone remember a time when this administration took responsibility for any negative consequences ???

When and not if this goes sideways....the GOP will be blamed...

[trisham]

"Raised in Ireland until she was nine, Power lived in Castleknock and was schooled in Mount Anville Montessori, Goatstown, Dublin[3] until her parents emigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1979.[4] She attended Lakeside High School in Atlanta, where she was a member of the cross country team and the basketball team. She subsequently graduated from Yale University. From 1993 to 1996, she worked as a journalist, covering the Yugoslav Wars for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic.

When she returned to the United States, she attended Harvard Law School, receiving her J.D. in 1999. The following year, she published her first book, Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact (edited with Graham Allison), a compilation of essays by leading human-rights scholars and practitioners. Her second book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, grew out of a paper she wrote while attending law school. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize[5] in 2003. It offers a survey of the origin of the word genocide, the major genocides of the 20th century, as well as an analysis of some of the underlying reasons for the persistent failure of governments and the international community to collectively identify, recognize and then respond effectively to genocides ranging from the Armenian Genocide to the Rwandan Genocide. This work and related writings received criticism from the historian Howard Zinn for downplaying the importance of "unintended" and "collateral" civilian deaths that could be classified as genocidal;[6] and by Edward S. Herman[7] and Joseph Nevins[8]"

Source: Wikipedia

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Unfortunately, our Irish cousins tend to be anti-semitic, which may well explain her support of Syrian rebels.

[Dr. Ursus]

Single mothers for free s-—!

[Carry_Okie]

I saw it. The speech was loaded with dishonest premises and false parallels.

[Fred Nerks]

Samantha Power: The Troubling Woman Behind The Curtain Of Obama’s Libya Policy.LINK

Much of the motivation behind Obama’s Libya policy stems from from the ideology of Samantha Power, the Irish-American, hard-Left humanitarian activist who has been the president’s Director for Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council since 2009 (and, incidentally, the wife of Obama’s “Regulatory Czar” Cass Sunstein). Power is the woman behind the curtain in terms of Obama's policy on Libya, but a look at what she advocates reveals a troubling agenda...

And we know how that worked out...

[Fred Nerks]

That’s really an excellent likeness. She needs to be restrained and placed somewhere that we are safe from her.

[spawn44]

Next THE FOREIGNER will have Samantha kneel down behind Putin and THE FOREIGNER will push him.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[Hotlanta Mike]

She has the face that only an ueberliberal could love...

[VerySadAmerican]

The fact that this woman got confirmed tells us just how much trouble we’re in.

[DTA]

Samantha Power is racist hater of Julius Streicher’s caliber.
She deserves to be charged and trialed for her crimes.

[Fred Nerks]

There's something cold about her that reminded me.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#19: Power was talking to people who wouldn’t mind the US bombing Israel. CAP is a marxist-oriented Soros Project. Believe it is still led by John Podesta, a vile cretin of the first magnitude.

Check out the leaders and staff of CAP. If you know the Left, you know who they are. If not, read some of the works of Trevor Loudon, Cliff Kincaid, Matthew Vadum, and others on CAP and its key people.

Then you will know who the enemy really is.

As for Power, she’s a loser who got lucky with the Comrades in the White House, plus her totalitarian-oriented husband, Cass Sunstein.

She wasn’t much of a hit with the Clinton administration and Rwanda, was she?

[Wisconsinlady]

Bummer. I thought it said SHE was deployed to Syria.

[KC_Lion]

Anti Cesmtic Sunt will get more than what she bargained for if She Gets her wish.

Crazy Broad is a Mini Reinhard Heydrich in the Making.

[VeniVidiVici]

She has that look of death about her.

She's got that vegan look about her.

[okie01]

Imagine having that woman for a neighbor...