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Samantha Power Proven Wrong Yet Again-Libya

Samantha Power is the Irish born Globalized Elitist who currently serves as President Obama’s Ambassador to the United Nations. Since the beginning of his Administration, she has been the intellectual nexus of his foreign policy; as such she has wielded enormous political influence, moral guidance and power, even up to the point of governance. In all aspects of her influence, guidance and decision making, she has been remarkably, ethereally wrong.

She has been celestially wrong in decision making on  Syria, Egypt , Central Africa Republic and  Libya.

Ambassador Power is the archangel in President Obama’s adrift, besotted and defeated foreign policy; she is the embodiment of everything wrong about the Globalized Elite governing a proud nation.  She is naïve, but who among us does not suffer from naiveté? Her sin is not naiveté, but a lack of self awareness about how naïve she truly is; she is smug in her naiveté, to an unconscionable degree.

Her  smug naiveté denudes her of the necessary foresight to see evil beyond the evil seen. She  cannot imagine an evil beyond the evil extant in current circumstances. Her  lack of imagination places her in the company of Neville Chamberlain, and Alexander Kerensky, dangerously wrongheaded about the worse that can happen.

She saw evil in Egypt's President Mubarak, worse still, she  thought Mubarak was the limit of evil. She  could not imagine anything or anyone more evil in Egypt than Mubarak, thus she supported the Muslim Brotherhood, which wanted to forcibly convert Copts, lynch Shiites, destroy the Pyramids and go to war with Christian Ethiopia. In Syria, she saw President Assad as the limit of evil, so she supported Sunni rebels to the point of proposing to bomb Syrian Shiites and Syrian Christians. Only Russian President Putin's astute diplomacy, and the fierce opposition of the American people stopped her from orchestrating a foreign policy disaster, war with the Alawite regime of Syria for the betterment of Salafists. In the Central Africa Republic(CAR), she supported a minority of Muslim Extremists who were slaughtering their Christian neighbors, only rising in moral outrage when the Christians took revenge on the Extremists.

In Libya, she has been wrong, on a cosmic level.

The following is excerpted from the New York Times:” Samantha Power took the podium at Columbia University ….Ms. Power, the fiery human rights crusader who now advises Mr. Obama on foreign policy… was among those encouraging President Obama to use military force in Libya. “Our best judgment,” she said, defending the decision to establish a no-fly zone to prevent atrocities, was that failure to do so would have been “extremely chilling, deadly and indeed a stain on our collective conscience.”

… from her perch on the National Security Council, she is in a position to make that case to the commander in chief — and to watch him translate her ideas into action.....she has Obama’s ear.”
The Irish-born Ms. Power, 40,…. was by no means alone in advocating military intervention in Libya — Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state, was a pivotal voice — the president’s decision to pursue that course is something of a personal triumph for her.
…. Critics say Ms. Power is pushing the United States into another Iraq…..(critics) omplain President Obama has outsourced foreign policy” to Ms. Power……. Aside from her Pulitzer and two Ivy League degrees (Yale undergraduate, Harvard Law), she has posed in an evening gown for Men’s Vogue and once played basketball with George Clooney. The Daily Beast calls her “the femme fatale of the humanitarian assistance world.”
When she married the constitutional law scholar Cass Sunstein — he now runs the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — Esquire dubbed them “The Fun Couple of the 21st Century” and photographed them on the squash court, in tennis whites. …
On Libya, Ms. Power’s critics — and even some admirers — suggest she may be helping to set a precedent that will invariably fail. ”  NEW YORK TIMES, MARCH 30, 2011.”
Ambassador Power is cool, hip, Millennial, half of a fun couple  and always wrong.
“Samantha Power is considered to be a key figure within the Obama administration in persuading the president to intervene militarily in Libya…..She has been described as instrumental in convincing Obama to push for a UN Security Council resolution to authorize a coalition military force ….."

Ambassador Power, the Ivy League Globalized Elitist, is perfectly willing to cavalierly commit American lives and American blood to  bring Ivy League morality to the whole world. It is easy to play in the blood game with the blood of your adopted countrymen.

Samantha Power prodded and pushed for the overthrow of Libyan dictator, Moamar Kadafi ; the following is what she wrought. (Reader, in the following quote, please note that Anne Patterson is a Samantha Power acolyte, and that while she was America's Ambassador to Egypt she urged the people of Egypt to happily accept the regime of the Muslim Brotherhood and not fight back).

“….Libya has become North Africa's most active militant sanctuary, at the center of the resurgent threat that Obama warned about in a May address at West Point. A 2012 terrorist attack against the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

Arms trafficking from Libya "is fueling conflict and insecurity — including terrorism — on several continents," an expert panel reported to the United Nations Security Council in February. Weapons smuggled out of Libya have been used by insurgents in Mali, by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria and by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

More than 50,000 people, including refugees from Syria and migrants from North Africa, have flooded into Europe through Libya's porous borders, …...
U.S. officials, now scrambling to reverse Libya's downward spiral, say blame rests with the Libyans who took control of a country that has proved more dysfunctional than expected…..Those who argued against the 2011 intervention say problems were foreseeable.

Former Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana who argued against the military campaign while serving as ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "There wasn't enough thought given ….”

…. Kadafi's vast arsenal of weapons. Estimated to include 1 million tons of assault rifles, small arms, antitank missiles, rockets and portable antiaircraft weapons, the cache was bigger than Britain's arms inventory.

As time passed, the crumbling of institutions and the conflicts among the 125 rival armed groups proved much greater than U.S. officials had expected. Violence surged, including kidnappings and attacks on government officials.

"We were all taken by surprise, when Kadafi left, by the sheer lack of government institutions," Anne Patterson, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, told a congressional panel Wednesday.

The administration's top priority now is an eight-year plan to train a force of up to 8,000 soldiers. But one year after Libya requested the help, the program hasn't begun because it is too dangerous for the trainers to enter ….Some observers are warning that the administration eventually may be forced to do more. A Rand Corp. report this spring predicted that if Libya's problems continue to worsen, another NATO intervention might be required….Los Angeles Times.”

Libya’s Dictator Kadafi was a bad man, who oppressed his people.  Hip, cool Samantha Power, half of a fun couple, got America, against its better interest to intervene. As a result of that intervention, bad has been replaced by evil.

“…. Salwa Bougaighis….the prominent human rights lawyer, 47, was attacked by masked men with guns and knives who stormed the walled compound where she lived in the eastern city of Benghazi, according to officials and news reports. She died a short time later in a hospital of a gunshot wound to the head, according to Libya’s state news agency, and had also been stabbed…... 

She was outspokenly critical of armed Islamist groups that have come to the fore, particularly in Benghazi, after the 2011 toppling and death of longtime dictator Moammar Kadafi.

…Bougaighis’ husband, who was said to have been home at the time of the assault, was reported missing….Bougaighis …. pushed for greater female representation in the post-revolution power structure …. Friends of the mother of three described her as a charismatic and elegant figure.”

Now Ms. Bougaighis is dead, slaughtered, a victim of the Islamist Jacobin Terror, which could have been, should have been seen as a consequence of the sophomoric overthrow of Kadafi. The reason that the Islamist Jacobin Terror was not foreseen is because Ms. Power is a congenitally malignant internationalist, willing and eager to sacrifice American interests and American lives for the interests of an  international morality conceived and nurtured in the academic salons and seminars of the Ivy League.

She is the anti-thesis of George F. Kennan; in her soul, in her actions, she is not an American diplomat but an international courtier, who serves the American Republic not because of any intellectual or moral or emotional commitment but because she is here in America. Her loyalty is a movable feast, and could  just as easily be transferred to the House of Savoy, to  the House of Bourbon or to the Sublime Porte.

Samantha Power is a cool, hip, connected, international courtier, who is always wrong.  America, her adopted land, has suffered greatly for those qualities.

SIDEBAR

Prior Blogs on Samantha Power


Samantha Power Proven Wrong Again-Central African Republic
http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2014/04/samantha-power-proven-wrong-again.html

Samantha Power Proven Wrong Syria
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 

Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013

Obama and Syria-Samantha Power the Medieval War Lord vs. Putin, the Talleyrand Diplomat
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013

The Blood of Egypt  on New UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Hands

تطيع نعم نستطيع (YES WE CAN) Jeffersonian Egyptians Take Down the Muslim  Brotherhood, Morsi, Obama, Patterson, and Samantha Power

 The Madness of President Obama and Samantha Power Giving Arms to Syrian Salafists

A Jungian Endorsement For Susan Rice as National Security Advisor; A Wise Rejection of the Khawagiyya Samantha Power as America's UN Ambassador

As Predicted By This Blog, Egyptian Muslim Fanatics Vow to Destroy the Pyramids ASAP-Thank you Samantha Power

2012 Review: Obama/Clinton/Power’s Biggest Mistake: Losing Egypt to the Sunni Islamist Axis. That Mistake Must Be Rectified By a Deal With Shiite Iran

As This Blog Predicted, Morsi Becomes A Dictator: "There Are No Democratic Islamists, Just Patient Ones"..Gerald Maxeyhttp://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2012/11/as-this-blog-predicted-morsi-becomes.html

Samantha Power and The Egyptian Army's New Chief of Staff's Islamist World View Will Cause A War Between Israel and Iran

As Predicted By This Blog On July 1, 2012, The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Outsmarts The Pro Western Army 

Samantha Power's Lady Gaga Foreign Policy, Being Hip Over Being Right, Strikes Again-Islamists In Egypt Win 65% Of The Vote

Samantha Power's ARAB SPRING
http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/#%21/2012/05/samantha-powers-arab-spring-brings-us.html


Salwa Bugaighis played an active part in Libya's 2011 revolution which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi
Salwa Bughaigis

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