Sunday, March 27, 2011

Obama Adviser Samantha Power At Columbia University Monday



TOPIC:
Obama, Human Rights, and the Lessons of the New Diplomacy



  • Complete Announcement By Columbia University



  • Her book about the United States turning a blind eye to genocide in the 20th century won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, Samantha Power, an adviser to President Obama, is being credited and / or blamed for U.S. intervention in Libya.

    The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd opined that fierce women in the Administration outmuscled the male military establishment, persuading a skeptical President to bomb the forces of Col. Moammar Gadhafi in what now seems to be a civil war. Others, like The Daily Beast’s Tara McKelvey, assert it is sexist and silly to make a big deal of Power and her colleagues – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice – uniting in opposition to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon and John Brennan, the counterterrorism chief.

    Margaret Carlson, formerly of Time and now a columnist for Bloomberg news, put it this way: “This rendering of events is greatly exaggerated but useful for critics coming at Obama from all sides, from those adamantly opposed to intervention to those who now support his actions but don’t like how he got there ...

    “The conflict in Libya, as challenging as it may be, has a better chance of ending well than the gender wars. We’re still mired in stereotypes of the roles men and women play, especially in military affairs, despite years of evidence showing that women are as analytic, decisive, aggressive and determined.”

    What is your take on the action in Libya and the roles of Power, Rice and Clinton?

  • Clinton Cites Rwanda, Bosnia in Rationale for Libya Intervention


  • Boston Globe Power Character Sketch


  • Financial Times: Obama and the women


  • NY Mag: The War Too Good To Pass Up


  • American Conservative: Humanitarian Intervention Elsewhere Is Impossible, But It Is Also Apparently Inevitable


  • Libya: Bernard-Henri Lévy dismisses criticism for leading France to conflict


  • Xinhua: Int'l community questions military intervention in Libya


  • Samantha Power: The voice behind Obama's Libya action


  • VIDEO:

  • Colbert To Power: Maybe Hillary Clinton Is A Good Monster, Like Cookie Monster ...


  • Charlie Rose: A Converstaion With Samantha Power


  • Interview Posted By Campus Progress


  • Rice and Power insisted that it would be morally wrong to let Gaddafi murder his own people and finish off the Arab Spring: Hillary Clinton crucially came down on the side of Rice and Power. This had nothing to do with their gender and all to do with their horror-laden memories of what happened in Rwanda ...
  • Ruth Dudley Edwards: Rwandan genocide still haunts Clinton


  • NPR: Women In Spotlight As U.S. Debates Libya Policy


  • twitter@cooljustice


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