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| 2008-02-24 |
| Here's a unnerving tidbit from an article about Samantha Power, a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, in the Sunday Times: Hitherto, the principal conduit between Britain and the candidate has been Lord Malloch-Brown, the junior foreign minister, whom Obama came to admire when he was deputy secretary-general of the United Nations. “He was really taken with him,” says Power, in what will undoubtedly be viewed by American conservatives as a desperately bad sign. “It’s a relationship that has persisted and they have talked a number of times since.” |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #8 support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence." And exactly who will this massive force be protecting and from whom? |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-02-24 13:17 |
| #7 To be honest the US should wash our hands of Israel and her neighbors. Allow free trade but otherwise stop with the military and economic handouts. In such as scenario Israel which actually has things to trade would come out far ahead. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-02-24 12:27 |
| #6 billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, Um, Samantha? How many billions have been thrown at the Paleos to date? Have you considered that return on investment concept at any point? |
| Posted by: Raj 2008-02-24 10:09 |
| #5 Seriously, this woman worries me. This is what she had to say recently about how she'd advise "the President" on the Israel-Palestine issue: "Putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially mean sacrificing -- or investing, I think, more than sacrificing -- billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence." |
| Posted by: Clem Sheck9754 2008-02-24 10:05 |
| #4 Obama has any non-"internationalist" advisors? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-02-24 08:55 |
| #3 she could have a great deal of power and dominion over the rest of us. For some reason, that doesn't appeal to me. Does anyone have any insulin? I just read the whole article and that was WAAAY to much sugar before breakfast. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-02-24 08:33 |
| #2 If Obama-Rama admires the f**king commie Malloch-Brown, that's all we need to know about B. Hussein and his foreign policy. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-02-24 08:03 |
| #1 Power wrote an award winning book on genocide, and she likes Obama. I smell "reparations." That issue is sandbaggable. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-02-24 06:36 |