The Samantha Power Doctrine
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Domingo Halliburton
Handmade in USA
holy shyt that's a long article. you want to give some highlights or something? I'm not reading all that.
It is basically a fluff piece bio on Power and her interventionist ideology.
The stuff towards the end is interesting ESP regarding Libya/Syria/Clinton
Power/Clinton/Rice were the reason we went into Libya and killed Qaddafi and if Libya hadn't been proven to be a clusterfukk Power would have been able to talk Obama into military action against Syria too.
I have never liked this woman and look at her so-called doctrine as being insanely naive and shortsighted.
She's one of my favourites simply because she can highlight massive mistakes that the US military has made in terms of intervention.
Intervention wouldn't nearly as difficult if the military wasn't so consistently short-sighted.
Politicians fear what she's saying because it cuts so cleanly through the thin veil of "politics."
She can find direct blame for huge failures, and has no problem stating them blatantly, there isn't any p*ssy-footing, or silence, just cause-and-effect.
She'd be the best ambassador to the UN simply because she doesn't pull any punches, and many politicians are afraid of that.
Brown_Pride
All Star
i really don't want to have to read all that 
She is catching a lot of heat for this UN Palestinian statehood veto vote.
Just off the piece:
"Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, asked her to explain what she meant, in a 2003 essay in The New Republic, when she called for “a historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored or permitted by the United States.” Power disavowed the piece, saying that she “probably very much overstated the case,” and adding, “This country is the greatest country on earth. I would never apologize for America.” Rubio pressed the point, leaning toward the microphone, his eyes sweeping the gallery, and Power had to repeat the line—“This is the greatest country on earth”—two more times."
Homegirl even went on to say that she learned that “Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.”
Politics can be really dirty because what one wants is usually known, and antagonism are the main tools...so it's really easy to make people with strong convictions "fall back". She won't ever end up like ol' boy Ned Stark in game of thrones, but politics and being real don't really mix breh. Only agendas can swim through the bullshyt, and you gotta push those as carefully as moving chess pieces against a GM.
Yet she tends to clam up when the conversation moves to Libya.