June 7, 2013
BUSH LITE:
Samantha Power: I'm a "humanitarian hawk" : The next ambassador to the UN reflects on the need to combat genocide and other human rights abuses (TOM JACOBS, 6/06/13, Pacific Standard)
President Obama nominated Samantha Power to be the next American ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday. As a journalist, academic, and sometime presidential advisor, she has consistently argued in favor of international action to prevent genocide and other abuses of human rights. She discussed her philosophy--and the role of the U.N.--in a 2008 interview with Miller-McCune magazine, the precursor to Pacific Standard, which we've reproduced below.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 7, 2013 4:55 AM
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