Balanced reporting from NPR on Samantha Power, the John Bolton of the Obama administration, only slightly more hawkish.
“In her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist, she describes how she went from working outside the system – as a fierce and idealistic defender of human rights — to moving inside, as a diplomat who must, above all else, be … diplomatic.”
Yes the warmongers have captured the supposed liberal outlet.
Thanks for these clarifying remarks.
As far as I can glean, your outrage stems from a government worker daring to leave his sinecure and join the private sector. What about part-time postal workers? Or should all lackeys of the jack-booted thieves be barred from civilian service throughout their lives?
Now, now; let’s not resort to insults. RW Hyperlibertarians want the U.S. to return to the halcyon days of the Battle of Blair Mountain or the Ludlow Massacre. Mr. Farnaby wants to return to the Stone Age, before the chiefs who built Sumerian civilization started robbing their people at spear-point to pay for sewage drains.
And I’m so sorry you can only insult me, Mr. Farnaby. I still look forward to an intelligible manifesto, if you have one. Last time we tried it wasn’t entirely clear whether the police of Farnabopia tortured suspects or … didn’t exist at all.
Well folks, you can’t say you didn’t see that one coming!
Emphasis added.
That will never be forthcoming.
Oh yes, Will is falling back on liberals being more violent than conservatives because war.
Samantha Power used to be a war correspondent, so she’s responsible for many casualties of war because she reported on it. That’s war propaganda. How did we not see it?
OMG you don’t know who Samantha Power is and you are talking about foreign policy. Awkward!
Lol a war correspondent.
Tell that to the slaves in Libya.
As one who identifies as rat feces, I strongly resent that remark.
OK Will, since you’re too scared to provide links to support anything you say, I’ll do it for ya.
Everybody, Will is basing his disdain for Samantha Power on this Conservapedia entry. “The Trustworthy Encyclopedia.”
He blindly accepted this caption under a picture of Power, Susan Rice and (da da daaaaa) Hillary Clinton plotting the downfall of Africa.
and Gaddafi was MURDERED, because Banghazi and NATO coverup! So, Will takes the side of despots, just like his hero Trump. The footnote references this article by CNN, although I don’t see anywhere in the article that blames Obama or Rice or Clinton or Power for Libya’s slave auctions. CNN you say? I thought CNN stood for the “Communist News Network.” Oh right, Conservatives like commies now!
Thanks for the hasty googling. I would have been embarrassed if I thought Power was simply a war correspondent. But hey.
Now, waitaminnit. Government is part of the productive economy, it is not some kind of parasitic growth on the private sector. Unless you subscribe to what economists call the “physical fallacy,” the belief that “real” wealth means only what you can hold in your hands. Soldiers and police officers and firefighters do not “produce” anything in that sense, but an economy can’t get along without them. Even lawyers are productive.
As does any Doper with a high post count. Let’s not throw stones.
The Libyans have a lot of problems, but tyranny is no longer one of them.
Listen to this man. He has gained many keen insights into the board’s history, culture, idiosyncrasies and interrelationships over the course of his storied four-day presence here. Adapted so quickly, so seamlessly, that it’s almost literally impossible to believe that he hasn’t been here before. Hell, screw the “almost.”
The shitter cleaners don’t produce anything physical but they are part of the productive sector and I admire them for that. Govt employees are not productive in any sense.
Samantha Power and John Bolton would agree.
Your bigotry and stupidity are really boundless, aren’t they?
You’d fit in perfectly, then.
Really? That’s the line of embarrassment for you and blindly accepting an obviously bogus Conservapedia article isn’t?
What about shitter cleaners employed by the government?
CHECKMATE, sir. It’s okay. You’ll get over being so thoroughly PWND.
OUCH!