Posted on 06/05/2013 7:41:36 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
ON Sept. 2, Ambassador Susan E. Rice delivered a eulogy for a man she called “a true friend to me.” Before thousands of mourners and more than 20 African heads of state in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ms. Rice, the United States’ representative to the United Nations, lauded the country’s late prime minister, Meles Zenawi. She called him “brilliant” — “a son of Ethiopia and a father to its rebirth.”
Few eulogies give a nuanced account of the decedent’s life, but the speech was part of a disturbing pattern for an official who could become President Obama’s next secretary of state. During her career, she has shown a surprising and unsettling sympathy for Africa’s despots.
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Ms. Rice’s enthusiasm for these leaders might have blinded her to some of their more questionable activities. Critics, including Howard W. French, a former correspondent for The New York Times, say that in the late 1990s, Ms. Rice tacitly approved of an invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo that was orchestrated by Mr. Kagame of Rwanda and supported by Mr. Museveni of Uganda. In The New York Review of Books in 2009, Mr. French reported that witnesses had heard Ms. Rice describe the two men as the best insurance against genocide in the region. “They know how to deal with that,” he reported her as having said. “The only thing we have to do is look the other way.” Ms. Rice has denied supporting the invasion.
More recently, according to Jason K. Stearns, a scholar of the region, Ms. Rice temporarily blocked a United Nations report documenting Rwanda’s support for the M23 rebel group now operating in eastern Congo, and later moved to delete language critical of Rwanda and Uganda from a Security Council resolution.
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History is a b witch!
a disturbing pattern for an official who could become President Obama’s next secretary of state. .................................. LOL, the way the voting goes lately, she may become our first female President in 2016.
” she may become our first female President in 2016. “
That’s the kind of thought that tests the circulatory system.
A classic Obama appointee: a leftist foreigner (Irish) with no love or appreciation for America. The Democrats successfully blocked John Bolton,an experienced, brilliant nominee for UN Ambassador. The Republicans, including spineless RINOS like Graham, McCain and Kirk, must be pressured to oppose this woman.
The kind of leader Obama and his people aspire to be.
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