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2/5/15, "Samantha Power-Genocide Enabler," American Thinker, James Lewis
"Genocides
happen when the civilized world shuts its eyes and does nothing while
some gang of barbarians slaughters human beings by the thousands.
Civilized silence promises safety to the killers and demoralizes their
victims.
Samantha
Power, Obama’s U.N. ambassador, has made a career criticizing U.S.
government passivity in the face of genocide. She has written Pulitzer
Prize-winning books like A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.
Now
she has been U.N. ambassador – a major power position in the Obama
administration, the most powerful political job she is ever likely to
have to do what she wants.
What
has Dr. Power done about genocide? What has she actually done to stop,
or even to complain in public about, groups and regimes that thirst
after genocide, like Iran, ISIS, the Taliban, the Wahhabi priesthood of
Saudi Arabia, the mass killing rulers of the Sudan? What about Boko
Haram killing, enslaving, and selling children in Nigeria?
What about
the Kenya massacres? What has she done?
Samuel Totten studies genocide as a disease of dysfunctional politics and has now written a report on Samantha Power’s actions against genocide.
They are zero, just like her boss’s achievements.
But
let’s be more modest. It may be hard to get things done in the real
world. So let’s just ask: what has Samantha Power even said in her highly public position as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations?
Has Power even spoken out, in private or public, against the horrors we can all see today?
Like
Obama himself, Dr. Power refuses even to call the real thing by its
proper name. Somehow, after a career of assaulting previous
administrations for their moral failures to even name genocide, she is
now struck deaf and dumb.
Samantha
Power is symbolic of all the simple moral failures of the Obama years.
She has sold her soul for a mess of pottage. Like her boss, Dr. Power
talks a good game.
The
Rwanda genocide happened because Kofi Annan, who was a U.N. “observer,”
knew all about it but never made a public fuss. The Armenian genocide
of 1.5 million Christians happened because ethnic and religious genocide
is what the Turks did during the four centuries of the Ottoman
Caliphate, and nobody in the more civilized world wanted to even
publicize it. The same is true of the Holocaust and Stalin’s Ukrainian
starvation campaign.
The
American left still celebrates American abandonment of South Vietnam as
a great moral victory. But it was not. It was a profound moral
defeat, which began a long, enormous genocide in the South, as we saw
from years and years of Vietnamese boat people who in despair took to
boats and rafts, hoping to be saved by the U.S. Navy. U.S. withdrawal
led to Pol Pot in Cambodia, who killed three to four million Khmer
people in the usual merciless fashion.
In
Vietnam, in Korea, in Greece, in Germany, the United States tried
valiantly to stop the tide of totalitarian Communism. No doubt we saved
millions of lives from Stalin and his murder battalions.
The
civilized world is not obligated to sacrifice precious lives, even for a
profoundly moral cause. We are not infinitely powerful. But we have
an elementary right and duty to tell the truth, and to act on it when we
can.
Obama’s abandonment of millions and millions of people is a cruel
defeat for elementary morality. Those who don’t get that are
sociopaths, and those who twist it are liars. Abandoning Afghanistan is
not, as the delusional left will say, some sort of victory. The rise
of barbarian sadistic regimes, those who routinely oppress all women and
girls because they can, is not – repeat: not – a wonderful moral
victory.
But Obama and his media lackeys will try to paint it that way.
Today
we don’t even allow ourselves to think that the Cold War was a noble
and civilizing effort by the United States and its allies against the
kind of barbarism that we see today being practiced by ISIS – and we
know about ISIS only because social media make it impossible for the
left to censor it. The left cares only about power, and the resulting
millions of dead and wounded are simply the price to pay for Progress.
(Today
they are doing it with third-trimester abortions here at home. The
domestic left is exactly the international left. They have no mercy.)
Now
Obama is willingly – maybe joyously – retreating from lands where we
made a difference. We gave and sacrificed precious lives and treasure
in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and elsewhere. It was the right thing to do
after 9/11/01 for our national security, and it was the moral thing to
do. Today Obama is turning Afghanistan over to the barbaric Taliban,
just as we seem to be turning Iraq over to ISIS and an Iranian proxy
regime in Baghdad.
Obama
is knowingly running away from the worst war ideology in the world:
war-making Islam. Since he is constitutionally unable to tell the
truth, he has to lie about it. Suddenly the Wahhabi torture theology of
ISIS – identical to that of the Taliban – no longer makes for a
“terrorist” gang. No, they are an “indigenous insurgency,” following
the most shameful lie of the left today, the corrupt idea that one man’s
terrorist is another man’s freedom-fighter. We should have realized
that when Obama allowed the young people’s Green Revolution in Tehran to
be killed and tortured into silence at the very beginning of this
administration.
We have lost our moral bearings, and the left likes it that way.
Obama
is a typical leftist horror story, just as merciless as Lenin, Chávez,
and Pol Pot. Since we’ve exhausted the English vocabulary for
describing him and his gang, I suggest we borrow his own lies to
describe him.
He is Obama the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Servant of the most ruthless war theology in history.
He is not my president, and in a moral sense, he is not an American president at all."
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Comment: We have Obama because he ran unopposed in 2008 and 2012. The GOP Establishment wanted him to win both times. They're still very happy with him. The GOP E enables genocide as much as anyone in the Obama admin. American Thinker authors enable genocide by failing to fault the GOP Establishment for its complicity. American Thinker won't name names--like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. These men have had daily access to microphones for decades and could have drawn attention to the various genocides mentioned in the above article. The GOP is the only entity that can stop the left. But they obviously don't want to. If AT wants to stop genocide they have to name the GOP E as enablers. It's no different than Obama refusing to name radical Islam.
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