Samantha Power: The foreign policy expert on rethinking Iraq, suicide bombers...

LA City Beat(Small Alt Weekly Publication) ^ | 03/05/2008 | Alfred Lee

[bahblahbah]

... This fits into how you see how the U.S. should be dealing with Iraq, moving forward.

My view of any debate about withdrawal is to put Iraqis at the center of our thinking in a way that we who have opposed the war sometimes have not done, and certainly in a way that the administration has rarely done, and what that means in practice is a massive refugee assistance package to countries like Syria, that have taken a million refugees, Jordan, Lebanon, that all have very delicate demographic balancing acts to perform. Most of their borders are completely closed now and Iraqis are trapped. It would entail more attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity in an effort to pull together a list of people who are the most responsible, the leaders of the militia who are doing great harm throughout Iraq, and at least making it more difficult for them to travel and buy weapons and do arms deals. And it would entail giving fair notice to Iraqi civilians about when and how we’re leaving and putting them at the center again of our planning, such that if they want to move from mixed sectarian neighborhoods to homogeneous ones, as tragic as that is, maybe there would be a way that we can facilitate that movement.

Are you a supporter of immediately beginning to withdraw troops?

Yeah. Yeah, I am.

[Zevonismymuse]

This was the bigger story to me. Much bigger than calling Hillary a monster. I had Googled Obama’s “advisers” and Samantha Power is typical of the anti-American advisers Obama has selected. This is what people should be talking about and the resignation of Samantha Power gave us an opportunity to start the conversation. Just pick any of his advisers, see what they have written or said in public and I bet the majority of his supporters would disagree. Not the college students and the professors who programmed them, but the silly Oprah followers that are “inspired” by Obama.

[rlmorel]

"...My view of any debate about withdrawal is to put Iraqis at the center of our thinking in a way that we who have opposed the war sometimes have not done, and certainly in a way that the administration has rarely done, and what that means in practice is a massive refugee assistance package to countries like Syria, that have taken a million refugees, Jordan, Lebanon, that all have very delicate demographic balancing acts to perform..."

Okay. This is a person who sees himself as some kind of "expert", and the solution is:

Give more money to people over there.

Never mind that this dumb ass couldn't string a sentence together in less than 76 words to explain his theory of "Give more American Taxpayer Money".

I despise liberalism, but particularly liberalism as practiced by gaseous bags of hot air like this one who enjoy listening to themselves talk.

[Texas Fossil]

There is an illuminating article about coverage of the West Bank issue and Samantha Power’s appointment at:

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/02/ny-times-friedman-calls-for-us-troops.html

It is an article critical of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman who has taken the same position as Samantha Power.

A video of an interview Power gave about using U.S. Troop deployment to maintain Peace and Nation Build in the West Bank follows the article.

It is a must view!