Past Writings: Samantha Power on Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq

I've said it before, but Samantha Power is a terrible pick and a terrible person. But her nomination reveals everything about this terrible president's foreign policy and his personal values --- which are despicable.

At the Wall Street Journal:

Samantha Power is President Barack Obama’s pick to succeed Susan Rice as the ambassador to the United Nations. The Dublin native and longtime Obama adviser is a former journalist, Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize winning author for a book on genocide. Over the years, she has earned a reputation for being a passionate human rights advocate and highly outspoken political aide (she resigned from the Obama campaign in 2008 after calling then-Obama rival Hillary Clinton a “monster”). Here is a sampling of Ms. Power’s writings, on topics including Sudan, Rwanda and the war in Iraq.

And at Israel Matzav, "Could it get worse? Samantha Power to be US Ambassador to the UN," and "Republican Jewish Coalition statement on Samantha Power nomination":

In 2008, as an academic who taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Samantha Power suggested that the U.S. should invade Israel militarily to impose a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and protect “a new state of Palestine.” Her writing and public appearances reflected her views that special-interest lobbies in this country (read, the “Israel lobby”) have too great an impact on our foreign policy in the Middle East.

More recently, she served as the first director of President Obama’s new Atrocity Prevention Board. In her months in that role, the APB was silent about the thousands of civilians killed by the Syrian government, the attacks by the Sudanese government of the Nuba tribes in South Sudan, and other crises around the world. The APB has no web site or social media presence, and has not responded to letters from human rights activists and genocide scholars regarding ongoing atrocities.

And if you have time, the press conference was pure Orwell: