Hypocrisy on Obama's Foreign Policy Team

Samantha Power, Obama's Foreign Policy Guru, is a harsh critic of George Bush's foreign policy. No surprise, there. However, Ms. Power-who teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government-made her reputation (she is relatively young) by winning the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2003 for her book "Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" a superb book covering the tragic history of genocide. The book is also a cry from the heart that America should never ignore a genocide and should act to prevent genocides. From Amazon: During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became increasingly frustrated with how little the United States was willing to do to counteract the genocide occurring there. After much research, she discovered a pattern: "The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it...(Read Full Post)