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SAMANTHA POWER, GENOCIDE ENABLER
American Thinker
Feb 5 2015
By James Lewis
Genocides happen when the civilized world shuts its eyes and does
nothing while some gang of barbarians slaughters human beings by
the thousands. Civilized silence promises safety to the killers and
demoralizes their victims.
Samantha Power, Obama's U.N. ambassador, has made a career criticizing
U.S. government passivity in the face of genocide. She has written
Pulitzer Prize-winning books like A Problem From Hell: America and
the Age of Genocide.
Now she has been U.N. ambassador - a major power position in the
Obama administration, the most powerful political job she is ever
likely to have to do what she wants.
What has Dr. Power done about genocide? What has she actually done to
stop, or even to complain in public about, groups and regimes that
thirst after genocide, like Iran, ISIS, the Taliban, the Wahhabi
priesthood of Saudi Arabia, the mass killing rulers of the Sudan?
What about Boko Haram killing, enslaving, and selling children in
Nigeria? What about the Kenya massacres? What has she done?
Samuel Totten studies genocide as a disease of dysfunctional politics
and has now written a report on Samantha Power's actions against
genocide.
They are zero, just like her boss's achievements.
But let's be more modest. It may be hard to get things done in the
real world. So let's just ask: what has Samantha Power even said in
her highly public position as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations?
Has Power even spoken out, in private or public, against the horrors
we can all see today?
Like Obama himself, Dr. Power refuses even to call the real thing
by its proper name. Somehow, after a career of assaulting previous
administrations for their moral failures to even name genocide,
she is now struck deaf and dumb.
Samantha Power is symbolic of all the simple moral failures of the
Obama years. She has sold her soul for a mess of pottage. Like her
boss, Dr. Power talks a good game.
The Rwanda genocide happened because Kofi Annan, who was a U.N.
"observer," knew all about it but never made a public fuss. The
Armenian genocide of 1.5 million Christians happened because ethnic and
religious genocide is what the Turks did during the four centuries of
the Ottoman Caliphate, and nobody in the more civilized world wanted
to even publicize it. The same is true of the Holocaust and Stalin's
Ukrainian starvation campaign.
The American left still celebrates American abandonment of South
Vietnam as a great moral victory. But it was not. It was a profound
moral defeat, which began a long, enormous genocide in the South, as
we saw from years and years of Vietnamese boat people who in despair
took to boats and rafts, hoping to be saved by the U.S. Navy. U.S.
withdrawal led to Pol Pot in Cambodia, who killed three to four
million Khmer people in the usual merciless fashion.
In Vietnam, in Korea, in Greece, in Germany, the United States tried
valiantly to stop the tide of totalitarian Communism. No doubt we
saved millions of lives from Stalin and his murder battalions.
The civilized world is not obligated to sacrifice precious lives,
even for a profoundly moral cause. We are not infinitely powerful. But
we have an elementary right and duty to tell the truth, and to act
on it when we can. Obama's abandonment of millions and millions of
people is a cruel defeat for elementary morality. Those who don't get
that are sociopaths, and those who twist it are liars. Abandoning
Afghanistan is not, as the delusional left will say, some sort of
victory. The rise of barbarian sadistic regimes, those who routinely
oppress all women and girls because they can, is not - repeat: not -
a wonderful moral victory.
But Obama and his media lackeys will try to paint it that way.
Today we don't even allow ourselves to think that the Cold War was a
noble and civilizing effort by the United States and its allies against
the kind of barbarism that we see today being practiced by ISIS - and
we know about ISIS only because social media make it impossible for the
left to censor it. The left cares only about power, and the resulting
millions of dead and wounded are simply the price to pay for Progress.
(Today they are doing it with third-trimester abortions here at home.
The domestic left is exactly the international left. They have
no mercy.)
Now Obama is willingly - maybe joyously - retreating from lands
where we made a difference. We gave and sacrificed precious lives
and treasure in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and elsewhere. It was the right
thing to do after 9/11/01 for our national security, and it was the
moral thing to do. Today Obama is turning Afghanistan over to the
barbaric Taliban, just as we seem to be turning Iraq over to ISIS
and an Iranian proxy regime in Baghdad.
Obama is knowingly running away from the worst war ideology in the
world: war-making Islam. Since he is constitutionally unable to
tell the truth, he has to lie about it. Suddenly the Wahhabi torture
theology of ISIS - identical to that of the Taliban - no longer makes
for a "terrorist" gang. No, they are an "indigenous insurgency,"
following the most shameful lie of the left today, the corrupt
idea that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter. We
should have realized that when Obama allowed the young people's Green
Revolution in Tehran to be killed and tortured into silence at the
very beginning of this administration.
We have lost our moral bearings, and the left likes it that way.
Obama is a typical leftist horror story, just as merciless as Lenin,
Chavez, and Pol Pot. Since we've exhausted the English vocabulary
for describing him and his gang, I suggest we borrow his own lies to
describe him.
He is Obama the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Servant of the most
ruthless war theology in history.
He is not my president, and in a moral sense, he is not an American
president at all.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/samantha_power_genocide_enabler.html
American Thinker
Feb 5 2015
By James Lewis
Genocides happen when the civilized world shuts its eyes and does
nothing while some gang of barbarians slaughters human beings by
the thousands. Civilized silence promises safety to the killers and
demoralizes their victims.
Samantha Power, Obama's U.N. ambassador, has made a career criticizing
U.S. government passivity in the face of genocide. She has written
Pulitzer Prize-winning books like A Problem From Hell: America and
the Age of Genocide.
Now she has been U.N. ambassador - a major power position in the
Obama administration, the most powerful political job she is ever
likely to have to do what she wants.
What has Dr. Power done about genocide? What has she actually done to
stop, or even to complain in public about, groups and regimes that
thirst after genocide, like Iran, ISIS, the Taliban, the Wahhabi
priesthood of Saudi Arabia, the mass killing rulers of the Sudan?
What about Boko Haram killing, enslaving, and selling children in
Nigeria? What about the Kenya massacres? What has she done?
Samuel Totten studies genocide as a disease of dysfunctional politics
and has now written a report on Samantha Power's actions against
genocide.
They are zero, just like her boss's achievements.
But let's be more modest. It may be hard to get things done in the
real world. So let's just ask: what has Samantha Power even said in
her highly public position as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations?
Has Power even spoken out, in private or public, against the horrors
we can all see today?
Like Obama himself, Dr. Power refuses even to call the real thing
by its proper name. Somehow, after a career of assaulting previous
administrations for their moral failures to even name genocide,
she is now struck deaf and dumb.
Samantha Power is symbolic of all the simple moral failures of the
Obama years. She has sold her soul for a mess of pottage. Like her
boss, Dr. Power talks a good game.
The Rwanda genocide happened because Kofi Annan, who was a U.N.
"observer," knew all about it but never made a public fuss. The
Armenian genocide of 1.5 million Christians happened because ethnic and
religious genocide is what the Turks did during the four centuries of
the Ottoman Caliphate, and nobody in the more civilized world wanted
to even publicize it. The same is true of the Holocaust and Stalin's
Ukrainian starvation campaign.
The American left still celebrates American abandonment of South
Vietnam as a great moral victory. But it was not. It was a profound
moral defeat, which began a long, enormous genocide in the South, as
we saw from years and years of Vietnamese boat people who in despair
took to boats and rafts, hoping to be saved by the U.S. Navy. U.S.
withdrawal led to Pol Pot in Cambodia, who killed three to four
million Khmer people in the usual merciless fashion.
In Vietnam, in Korea, in Greece, in Germany, the United States tried
valiantly to stop the tide of totalitarian Communism. No doubt we
saved millions of lives from Stalin and his murder battalions.
The civilized world is not obligated to sacrifice precious lives,
even for a profoundly moral cause. We are not infinitely powerful. But
we have an elementary right and duty to tell the truth, and to act
on it when we can. Obama's abandonment of millions and millions of
people is a cruel defeat for elementary morality. Those who don't get
that are sociopaths, and those who twist it are liars. Abandoning
Afghanistan is not, as the delusional left will say, some sort of
victory. The rise of barbarian sadistic regimes, those who routinely
oppress all women and girls because they can, is not - repeat: not -
a wonderful moral victory.
But Obama and his media lackeys will try to paint it that way.
Today we don't even allow ourselves to think that the Cold War was a
noble and civilizing effort by the United States and its allies against
the kind of barbarism that we see today being practiced by ISIS - and
we know about ISIS only because social media make it impossible for the
left to censor it. The left cares only about power, and the resulting
millions of dead and wounded are simply the price to pay for Progress.
(Today they are doing it with third-trimester abortions here at home.
The domestic left is exactly the international left. They have
no mercy.)
Now Obama is willingly - maybe joyously - retreating from lands
where we made a difference. We gave and sacrificed precious lives
and treasure in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and elsewhere. It was the right
thing to do after 9/11/01 for our national security, and it was the
moral thing to do. Today Obama is turning Afghanistan over to the
barbaric Taliban, just as we seem to be turning Iraq over to ISIS
and an Iranian proxy regime in Baghdad.
Obama is knowingly running away from the worst war ideology in the
world: war-making Islam. Since he is constitutionally unable to
tell the truth, he has to lie about it. Suddenly the Wahhabi torture
theology of ISIS - identical to that of the Taliban - no longer makes
for a "terrorist" gang. No, they are an "indigenous insurgency,"
following the most shameful lie of the left today, the corrupt
idea that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter. We
should have realized that when Obama allowed the young people's Green
Revolution in Tehran to be killed and tortured into silence at the
very beginning of this administration.
We have lost our moral bearings, and the left likes it that way.
Obama is a typical leftist horror story, just as merciless as Lenin,
Chavez, and Pol Pot. Since we've exhausted the English vocabulary
for describing him and his gang, I suggest we borrow his own lies to
describe him.
He is Obama the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Servant of the most
ruthless war theology in history.
He is not my president, and in a moral sense, he is not an American
president at all.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/samantha_power_genocide_enabler.html