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To: Biggirl

Here’s a tip to the pinkos who run things at Brookings: Islam’s War Against Civilization is FAR from over.


2 posted on 11/13/2014 7:50:38 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both. Hat)
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To: BenLurkin
Re:Here’s a tip to the pinkos who run things at Brookings:

You mean like Strobe Talbott who served as Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration and was dubbed "Russia's man in Washington?"

http://www.kentimmerman.com/news/strobe.htm

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Obama's National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, is also a Brookings alumnus. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council, and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term.

Although the Rwanda genocide occurred on Susan Rice's watch, she was even reluctant to use what came to be called the "g-word" (i.e."genocide") to acknowledge the reality of what was happening there.

Even after the reality of genocide in Rwanda had become irrefutable, when bodies were shown choking the Kagera River on the nightly news, the brute fact of the slaughter failed to influence U.S. policy except in a negative way. American officials, for a variety of reasons, shunned the use of what became known as "the g-word." They felt that using it would have obliged the United States to act, under the terms of the 1948 Genocide Convention. They also believed, understandably, that it would harm U.S. credibility to name the crime and then do nothing to stop it. A discussion paper on Rwanda, prepared by an official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and dated May 1, testifies to the nature of official thinking. Regarding issues that might be brought up at the next interagency working group, it stated,

1. Genocide Investigation: Language that calls for an international investigation of human rights abuses and possible violations of the genocide convention. Be Careful. Legal at State was worried about this yesterday-Genocide finding could commit [the U.S. government] to actually "do something." [Emphasis added.]

At an interagency teleconference in late April, Susan Rice, a rising star on the NSC who worked under Richard Clarke, stunned a few of the officials present when she asked, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Lieutenant Colonel Tony Marley remembers the incredulity of his colleagues at the State Department. "We could believe that people would wonder that," he says, "but not that they would actually voice it." Rice does not recall the incident but concedes, "If I said it, it was completely inappropriate, as well as irrelevant."

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/06/05/5_highlights_from_susan_rice_s_diplomatic_career_national_security_advisor

6 posted on 11/13/2014 9:04:51 AM PST by Sons of Union Vets (No taxation without representation!)
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