Samantha Power: From Fiery Activist to a Typical “All Talk, No Action” Bureaucrat

Canada Free Press ^ | 02/03/15 | Samuel

[Sean_Anthony]

Anemic, confused, totally inept responses by her administration to today's human rights tragedies across the globe. A sad commentary, is it not?

Samantha Power made her name on both her hard-hitting, Pulitzer-prize winning book, “A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” and her no holds-barred lectures and articles decrying the U.S. Government’s lax responses to crimes against humanity and genocide. In the aforementioned book, Power excoriated a host of presidential administrations for what she deemed to be their “toleration of unspeakable atrocities, often committed in clear view.” Proudly, she welcomed the sobriquet—and took on the mantle of—“the genocide chick.”

Now a major player in the Obama Administration—currently she is the United States Ambassador to the UN—she has largely become a facsimile of the prototypical bureaucrat who is more often glib than effective. The quick and seemingly easy change from fiery activist and advocate for bold actions to babbling bureaucrat full of excuses is astonishing. Or, maybe not.

While Power continues to talk a good game, she has assiduously avoided taking a hard, no nonsense stance vis-á-vis the Obama administration’s pusillanimous stance vis-á-vis a host of human rights tragedies today (e.g., those in Syria, Iraq, the Nuba Mountains, Sudan; Darfur, Sudan; the Central African Republic; and Burma, to name but several).

[cripplecreek]

Adolph Hitler was a fiery activist too and he had the same goals as Power.

[cripplecreek]

Samantha Power supports an invasion of Israel to protect the Palestinians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5XxXm8wPE

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Vanity Fair version.

Real version.

[manc]

LOL, just the media doing what they always do. Wait for the fakes of Clinton like they did for chewbaca.

[KC_Lion]

The Anti-Semitic Bitch probably has her office at the U.N. adored with Kurt Waldheim memorabilia >:(

Mrs. Cass Sunstine needs to jump in the East River.

[BerryDingle]

media “puff piece” about an _$$hole.

[okie01]

Many argue that it is unseemly how Power has apparently come to readily accept as a given that should not be questioned that governments generally “address” major international human rights violations with great circumcision and caution.

Great........what???!!!

[wildbill]

[they]...”accept as a given that should not be questioned that governments generally “address” major international human rights violations with great circumcision and caution.”

Well, that cuts to the head of the problem. I would hope they use great caution indeed.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Mrs. Cass Sunstein needs to jump into the East River (and take her power-mad wacko of a husband with her, thus making the world safer for humanity). I feel really sorry for the fish they meet on the way down.