My Comment: These people are all being placed in positions of power. This is unbelievable that the American people still refuse to see what this man and his minions are doing not only here but in the world. Wake up America!
WASHINGTON, DC — If all goes as expected, Samantha Power will sail through her confirmation vote in the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday and face a Senate floor vote in the coming days to finalize her appointment as America’s next ambassador to the United Nations.
Following in the footsteps of outgoing Ambassador Susan Rice, Power initially seemed to be no less of a controversial figure. While Rice was a Republican target for her role in the aftermath of the Benghazi embassy attack last year, Power is criticized for past comments on Israel and even the United States (she famously called Hillary Clinton a “monster” in 2008). Recently she has proven, however, to be a popular candidate for the position.
In an unusually enthusiastic show of support from the Republican Senate minority, ranking member Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN) told Power that he was “exceptionally excited about the fact you’re going to be in this position,” implying that Senate Republicans would not impede her confirmation. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) championed Power’s nomination from its inception, immediately releasing a statement that he supported Obama’s choice after the president tapped Power for the job last month.
Power, 41, a former journalist, human rights advocate and Harvard professor, emigrated from Ireland to the state of Georgia in 1979, where she says she worked hard to reduce her lilting accent. She earned a degree at Yale and worked as a journalist covering the Yugoslav Wars from 1993-1996, returned to the US and graduated from Harvard Law School.
Power has made a career out of her biting intellect and critical engagement with human rights policy and genocide. She has published four books on the subject, one of which, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” won her the Pulitzer Prize in 2002.
Allies and opponents alike describe Power as outspoken. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told Power that she has “the ideal intellectual and value credentials for this position,” but acknowledged that “when I heard of the appointment, though, my first reaction was, wow, she’s pretty blunt and outspoken.”
‘I don’t think blunt and outspoken is actually usually a great qualification for a diplomatic post, but actually for this one it is because my experience with the UN is it’s vague and amorphous’
“I don’t think blunt and outspoken is actually usually a great qualification for a diplomatic post, but actually for this one it is because my experience with the UN is it’s vague and amorphous and then you translate vague and amorphous into six languages and I think the UN could use a lot more blunt and outspoken,” Kaine added during Power’s confirmation hearing last Wednesday.
Under criticism for past comments seen as overly critical of America, Power leveraged those traits in her own favor, promising to be an “outspoken and blunt” advocate for America’s interest in the world governing body.
But it was the same propensity toward blunt – and perhaps even impulsive – statements that gave ample ammunition for those who opposed her nomination.
Power was an early supporter of President Barack Obama, serving as an advisor in the early stages of his 2008 presidential bid. The Harvard professor resigned her role suddenly, after she notoriously referred to Obama’s then-opponent Hillary Clinton as a “monster” during an on-the-record interview with The Scotsman.
Clinton and Power would go on to work closely for the next four years, with Power serving as a Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council.
Other past comments have proven stickier for Power, who gained first-hand experience of human rights abuses while covering the Yugoslav War as a young reporter.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) cited comments made by Power that he saw as critical of Israel and of American policy as the basis for his opposition to her nomination, as did the Zionist Organization of America. As late as last week, Republican Jewish Coalition Executive Director Matt Brooks included Power on a list of Obama’s second term nominees whose “record on Israel and Middle East issues raise serious concerns.”
Criticism of Power’s positions on Israel centers around comments that she made in 2002 when asked to conduct a “thought experiment” on how her belief in liberal interventionism in defense of human rights could be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Power answered that “what we need is a willingness to actually put something on the line in the service of helping the situation. And putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import.”
Discussing the hypothetical case of an Israeli genocide of Palestinians, she added that “it may mean…investing billions of dollars it would probably take also to support I think what will have to be a mammoth protection force … a meaningful military presence.”
In the taped interview, conducted with University of California Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies Executive Director Harry Kreisler, Power went on to note that “imposition of a solution on unwilling parties is dreadful” but that in this case, the then-leaders Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, “have been dreadfully irresponsible — and unfortunately it does require external intervention, which…is going to come under fierce criticism, but we have to think about lesser evils, especially when the human costs are becoming ever-more pronounced.”
During her confirmation hearing, both Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) probed her on the contentious statements, which Power described as “a long, rambling and very remarkably incoherent response to a hypothetical question that I should never have answered.”
“I have disassociated myself from those comments many times,” answered Power. “What I believe in terms of Middle East peace is, I think, what is obvious to all of us here which is peace can only come about through a negotiated solution. There is no shortcut. That’s why Palestinian…unilateral statehood efforts within the UN system — shortcuts of that nature just won’t work.”
When pressed further on comments made on US involvement in Iraq and Rwanda, Power explained that she was a prolific writer, but that “serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch,” and that she had gained a different perspective through her work with the administration.
‘The United States has no greater friend in the world than the state of Israel. We share security interests, we share core values, and we have a special relationship with Israel’
Power has reiterated her pro-Israel position, arguing that despite the UN’s many accomplishments, “within the UN, an organization built in part to apply the lessons of the Holocaust, we also see unacceptable attacks against the state of Israel.” She added that “the United States has no greater friend in the world than the state of Israel. We share security interests, we share core values, and we have a special relationship with Israel. And yet the General Assembly and Human Rights Council continue to pass one-sided resolutions condemning Israel…. Israel’s legitimacy should be beyond dispute, and its security must be beyond doubt.”
Power’s supporters emphasize that as Obama’s adviser on UN affairs, she was the final call against American participation in the Israel-bashing 2009 UN Durban Review Conference and that she worked together with outgoing UN Ambassador Susan Rice to combat anti-Israel bias in the world governing body.
Power, who was described by Men’s Vogue in 2008 as “a Harvard brainiac who can boast both a Pulitzer Prize and a mean jump shot,” has more to thank Obama for than just her current nomination. While working on Obama’s first presidential campaign, she met law professor Cass Sunstein, whom she married in June 2008. Power has two young children, who attended her Senate confirmation hearing last week, where she promised senators that her four-year-old son, Declan, will be happy to serve as their tour guide in the UN’s New York headquarters should she be confirmed.
The Senate, meanwhile, remains tight-lipped about the date for her final confirmation vote. Menendez told Power that he hopes to have her “seated while we’re still the president of the Security Council,” a rotating position the US holds until the end of July. (The US will again hold the position in November 2014.) Republican sources expressed optimism that Power would be approved before the General Assembly convenes on September 17.
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