Samantha Power resigns
| By Preston Mitchum - Mar 7th, 2008 at 3:15 pm EST |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
Samantha Power, Senator Barack Obama’s foreign policy adviser, resigned today after referring to Senator Clinton as a "monster – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power added. According to the Times Online, “the departure of Samantha Power for insulting, off-the-record remarks made to The Scotsman newspaper during a visit to London reflects how the Democratic presidential race has been transformed in the past five days.”
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Recently she was claiming to have advocated for US military intervention in Rwanda. problem is, that our country failed in the most miserable degree to contribute anything helpful in that shameful chapter of human history; rather, we did nothing and actually helped Belgium retreat without looking too cowardly. So really, in this case the clintons were quite monstrous in displaying a callous indifference toward genocide, a genocide I believe Sam Powers covered and won awards for covering it:
"Power was rightfully awarded the Pulitzer for her finely written and downright horrifying book "A Problem From Hell" which, in macabre detail, describes the calculated indifference of the Clinton administration when 800,000 Rwandans were being systematically butchered. The red phone rang and rang and rang again. I don't know where Hillary was then. But her husband and his entire experienced foreign policy team - from the brass in the Pentagon to the congenitally feckless Secretary of State Warren Christopher - just let it ring.
And as more than one researcher has amply documented the case, the bloody paralysis of the Clinton administration in the face of the Rwandan genocide owed not at all to a lack of information, but rather to a lack of will. A reviewer of Power's book for The New York Times, perhaps summed it up best, saying that the picture of Clinton that emerges from this reading is that of an "amoral narcissist.""