Know we are supposed to hate Samantha Power because she did not think a fascist demagogue like Milosevic who had suspended the regional autonomy of Kosovo in 1989 could be appeased whether Appendix B of the Rambouillet agreement was reworded or not. Of course the NATO strategy of bombing without provision of security troops in Kosovo was unconscionable. But I don't think Power would deny that. Maybe she would. Yet we know that Obama has not driven Power from his inner circle for the comments below; in fact he invited her into it after she made these comments.
http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14097&Itemid
Power, the lecturer from Harvard, is a more sensitive problem for the campaign. An expert on genocide who has worked with Jewish activists who press the case that the United States should have done more to stop the Holocaust during World War II, she served for two years on Obama's Senate staff and is a permanent adviser -- but not, the campaign says, on Middle East-related issues. Still, she has published lacerating criticisms of Israel's first Lebanon war -- although none that would be out of line with Israel's Labor Party. And in a 2003 Soros-funded symposium, she appeared eager to jump to the conclusion that Israel had committed war crimes in the West Bank town of Jenin.
The Obama campaign has rejected efforts to paint her as anti-Israel, although notably, it does not address her writings related to Israel.
"Samantha Power is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a book about the evil of genocide, which includes an extensive discussion of the Holocaust, so for this smear e-mail to paint her as anti-Israel is outrageous," said a statement from the campaign that first appeared in the Palm Beach Post in Florida. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/