On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Samantha Power to head the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in a vote of 68 to 26. Power is a hawkish veteran of the Obama administration who played a crucial role in the disastrous 2011 Libya intervention.
From her post on Obama’s National Security Council, Power pushed hard for the US to intervene in Libya under the guise of protecting human rights. She was joined in her campaign by then-Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Susan Rice, who served as the UN ambassador at the time. Rice now serves in the Biden administration as Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
Reports from 2011 say the pressure from Power, Clinton, and Rice is what ultimately pushed Obama to intervene militarily in Libya since his other top advisors were against it. Then-Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates would later say that Obama decided to bomb Libya in a “51 to 49” decision.
Needless to say, the US-NATO intervention in Libya that killed former Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi was a total disaster. While Power said it needed to be done for the sake of human rights, destabilizing the North African country has created a humanitarian catastrophe and even led to the creation of Libyan slave markets.
For her efforts to convince Obama to destroy Libya, Power was promoted to UN ambassador, where she served from 2013 to 2017. During that time, she pushed for more intervention in Syria and backed the Saudis at the UN while they bombed and starved civilians in Yemen.
In a 2019 memoir, Power defended her decision to push for the Libya war and didn’t think the war in Yemen was worth mentioning.
Power will have a lot of influence on the Biden administration’s foreign policy from her new post at USAID. During confirmation hearings, Power said she would use the agency to combat Chinese influence and accused Beijing of using its “economic leverage” in a “predatory way.”
While it’s not a national security agency, USAID is often used to fund US regime change efforts. For example, in September 2019, USAID announced it would be providing $52 million to Juan Guaido, who the US recognizes as president of Venezuela, despite the fact that Nicolas Maduro holds the office. Earlier in 2019, the US backed Guaido in a failed coup attempt.
She said at her confirmation that she would mispurpose USAID to hawkish uses. She got votes for that. She is a serious problem here, but very far from the only problem here.
Nuland, and other hawks make for a massive problem.
People like her have no Shame.
MD, they give over to evil, plain and simple, in the end they lose,,just like Bushy Boi’ the serial killer.
The feminists must be so proud. Rush always called them “feminazis”, …turns out he was smarter than he knew.
He was not referring to these gals, but the term is appropriate.
Well the band all back together:-(
Yes, Trump did such a good job, lost the House, Senate, then POTUS,,what a Fing loser.
“Veteran Interventionist Samatha Power … “
A long experienced War Criminal Samatha Power …
Never let the facts, the United States Constitution or the Nuremberg Principles get in the way of writing a headline, an article or “journalism.”
dennis hanna
It’s so obvious all the pieces are being put in place for the next war. If you go to the Hill you’ll notice all the old men posting there have war fever and depending on party, they want to go to war with China or Russia. The narrative is that Trump is Russia’s patsy and Biden is China’s patsy. The entire collective consciousness of the old male population wants to go to war with someone so they can pop a beer and watch more young people get killed so they can feel tough and virile while sitting on their sofas with a beer. America is a runaway train heading for WWIII.
The horror and risk continues; this woman reeks of evil intention but she fits in with rice, nuland, haines, and the other war mongering harpies.
These war crimminals are a disgrace to women kind and humanity