I heard her on NPR the other day lamenting the failure of the US to intervene in Sudan, where apparently Rab
Muslims are conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign against Blach Muslims.
jks
--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > -"World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
> contributed
> > -mightily to the advent of fascism..."
> > - Samantha Power in yesterday's NYT Book Review
>
> Has anyone read Power's book, "A Problem From Hell"?
> My wife's reading it as
> part of a group, so I picked it up and thumbed
> through it, and it is, my
> friends, an utter fraud. For a book about "American
> and the Age of
> Genocide," there's very little about direct American
> contributions to global
> misery and mass murder. A brief mention of East
> Timor, where Power says that
> the US "looked away" once Indonesia began the
> slaughter, no mention of
> Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala or the Turkish
> anti-Kurd campaign in the
> early-90s, but plenty about Saddam, Milosevic, et
> al. At best, Power
> lambastes the US for inaction or short-term
> realpolitick. But you're not
> gonna find much about US action against the world's
> poor, either directly or
> through proxies, which is why Power's book is so
> lauded by the liberal
> intelligensia. Even Nation eds like Marc Cooper
> praise the thing, and attack
> those on his blog (like myself) who point out these
> glaring omissions as
> "Red Guard" cadre, and so on. I'd call it a
> disgrace, but it's too commonly
> done to warrant such a dramatic term.
>
> DP
>
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