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Ambassador Samantha Power:  The “Hellish Power” Who Bombs her Way Out of Genocide!

  I recently read an interesting but guarded article by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in the NY Times  (posted earlier) about the United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power. 

Both in her personal and professional articles and appearances,   I found her awkward,  gawky,  and  reincarnation of the Gaelic Woman Warrior lost in a world of touchy-feely sentiments.  

For those how do not know who she is,  and I admit that I really did not care to know more about her until this article entitled,  “A New U.S. Player, Put on World Stage By Syria” appeared. 

I had heard about her and her Pulitzer Prize Winning novel,  oops sorry,  non-fiction,  A Problem From Hell: America And The Age Of Genocide.   I had the good misfortune to have read the book and dismissed it as ‘childish,  simplistic and factually incorrect’.   Of course,  needless for me to say that this book had grown out of a paper that she had written for her law degree at Harvard.

Unfortunately for Ms Powers,  her descriptive inaccuracies were obvious to many but especially to me because of my personal involvement in developing the architecture for the 1991 Paris Peace Conference On Cambodia.

This Gaelic Whirling Dervish from Hell,  had no insights nor understanding of the realities on the ground and most importantly had no appreciation for how the Perm Five of the UN were brought deftly into the peacemaking process.   This group of nations disarmed the Khmer Rouge and eventually with the lead of an outstanding French diplomat,  Claude Martin-   Russia,  China,  England,  France and the USG agreed to bring a peacekeeping force to Cambodia.   Subsequent to the appearance of the UN Peacekeeping Troops from around the world,  Prime Minister Hun Sen,  led Cambodia into twenty years of prosperity and peace.   Now there is a healthy political fight between HunSen and his political opposition for dominance.   But that’s another story.

  As for Samantha Power,  she “who loved all of mankind”,   counseled President Obama  into bombing Libya to prevent another ‘non-existent genocide’.    She also counseled  POTUS recently as Ambassador to the UN to initiate a US military strike against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

How does a foreign policy novitiate ingratiate her way into a position of such serious responsibility as the UN Ambassador without having had any peace operations experience?   She has the foreign policy knowledge of a Yale/Harvard  Sophomore under the aegis of Graham Allison,  a well-known ‘intellectual blowhard’ who wrote one major book,   Crisis In Decision,  some thirty years ago.

 

In reflecting on the article and musing about her personality,   I resorted to the time-tested adage that Moliere wrote in his famous French play Les Misanthropes:
"He/She who loves ALL MAN,  LOVES NO MAN"

  Nothing could be truer than Hellish Samantha.

  Let me tell you why!
  Neither tutored in Realpolitik nor in geopolitical strategy and certainly not in psychology or nation/state behavior,   Samantha ascended to the powerful position by being what all such people do best,  ‘suck up’ and degrade those who  know more than her.

  There are many things I can write about Hillary Clinton but Samantha without merit or past achievements was able to say the following about her future boss at the State Department and still get away with it:

In a March 6 interview with the Scotsman,  ”We [Obama’s team] FUCKED UP IN OHIO.   In Ohio,   they are OBSESSED and Hillary is GOING TO TOWN ON IT because she knows Ohio’s the only place they can win.   HILLARY IS MONSTER TOO –THAT IS OFF THE RECORD.    SHE IS STOOPING TO ANYTHING!!”

I won’t argue with Samantha’s description but I will resort again to the old French proverb –“Qui s’excuse! S’accuse!!”

  Now what makes Samantha “Hellish”? 

I think that an apt description of her,  is that she comes out of "hell"---Ireland (or Britain?)—and is invested in hellish scenarios of killing in order to resolve those hellish problems  with HELLISH INSTRUMENTS OF WAR!!!   I find that to be an apt description of a so-called  anti-genocide,  pro-humanitarian,  childish embrace of ignorance and arrogance.

  But what I find far more fascinating are the people whom I have known well that support her out of political convenience and/or Political Cronyism—all of whom have never been the UN Ambassador.   They include famous state department ambassadors,  and other nefarious neo-cons like Dennis Ross,  the trifecta failure of the Middle East Peace Process despite being Israel's professional foreign policy ‘streetwalker’.    Then there is always the delightful twosome ‘dumb and dumber’,   Senator John McCain and Miss Lindsey Graham.

However,   I do respect Ambassador John Bolton who helped fund the Peacekeeping mission in Cambodia,   and criticized Hellish Samantha Power for her having compared THE UNITED STATES TO NAZI GERMANY in a 2003 article that she had written in The New Republic.

    Who best to represent the great United States than an incompetent,  arrogant,  ungrateful,  Yalie NON AMERICAN who learned foreign policy from  intellectual mentors [Ambassador Richard Holbrooke—whom I had known very very well];  teachers [Graham Allison et al. at Harvard Public Policy School];  and Obama, Susan Rice.

I would like to thank following Jewish Organizations for their fullhearted support of Hellish Samantha Powers and her comparison of the USG to Nazi Germany:

-- The Jewish Council For Public Affairs.

-- The President of the Rabbinical Assembly,  Gerald Skolnik.

-- The Eastern Director  of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,  Steven Burg.

-- The National Jewish Democratic Council. 

With friends and ambassadors like that- what more do I have to say,  America ???