Kerry On a Mission to Convince Friends of a Political Solution in Syria

Syrian Opposition Wants US Weapons Fast
[original title to article Kerry tackles Congo and Syria conflicts – Oui]

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (ABC News) – The leader of Syria’s Western-backed opposition group told U.S. Secretary John Kerry that the United States must quickly supply rebels with promised weapons to prevent a military victory by President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Ahmad Al-Jarba, in a statement sent out while he was still meeting with Kerry at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, called the situation in Syria “desperate” and said the opposition urgently needs American action “to push the international community to demand a political transition.”

The newly elected head of the Syrian National Coalition accused the Assad regime of using indiscriminate weapons ranging from chemical weapons to cluster bombs and said opposition fighters must have weapons to defend themselves and protect civilians.

“There is no military solution to Syria,” Kerry then told reporters

Ban Ki-moon: Political process only way to solve Syrian crisis

(CCTV) May 30, 2013 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says “only a political process can resolve” the crisis in Syria. Speaking at a news conference in New York, he said Russia and the United States have asked him to convene UN sponsored talks aimed at ending the civil war as soon as possible. He’s also commented that difficulties lie ahead.

Ban Ki-moon said, “We have yet to find out, agree, mutually agreeable and convenient date for a meeting, and also we have to see how the opposition groups are discussing their unity issues.”

Kerry in Saudi Arabia: US believes political solution is best for Syrian crisis

(CCTV) June 26, 2013 – Saudi Arabia has called the involvement of Iran and Hezbollah in Syria’s civil war as dangerous, and said the rebels must be offered military aid to defend themselves.

Speaking at a news conference with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jeddah, Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said his country would respond to the Iranian intervention. He also called for an international resolution to ban arms flows to the Syrian government.

Meanwhile, Kerry said the US believes an international conference offers the best chance to bring about a political solution. He added the US would continue to provide assistance to Syrian opposition forces. Kerry returned to the Middle East after a two-day visit to India. He has held discussions with Prince Saud and Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan on the Syrian crisis.

Obstacles John Kerry needs to overcome; the likes of Samantha Power and “humanitarian” Susan Rice

Jon Stewart merciless on Obama and the GOP Hawks about Syria

(Mediate) – Republicans like Graham and John McCain don’t want boots on the ground, and Stewart couldn’t help but wonder how the hell that’s supposed to happen if the U.S. is going to arm the rebels and then consequently asking for those arms back. But any action is going to run into roadblocks at the U.N., and Stewart found it awkward that any potential intervention in Syria relies on “convincing Vladimir Putin that it’s bad to poison people.”

Stewart called out GOP senators and George W. Bush for not learning any lessons from Iraq, suggesting “that little misadventure made us a little more cautious” about how we handle red lines.

2 Comments

Oui on July 26, 2013 at 9:18 am

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Just watch the video clip, do I need to say more? I don’t think so … Obama nominated her to be our UN Ambassador. Not taking the United Nations seriously …

Who is this lady? Unbelievable what an stupid, incoherent presentation. How come the Republicans give their support in the nomination hearing? Samantha Power dare not take a stand on the atrocities by the Bush administration. She did do a book introduction: The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power . In 2005, Booman blogger named human wrote a diary about this book by Hannah Arendt. I can’t imagine, Ms. Power has ever traveled to Europe and study what the EU is all about since the 2nd World War.

A few of her statements in the TED presentation of 2008:
In the 20th century, there was no anti-genocide movement.
European countries have not taken their responsibility to prevent a “never again” moment in history.

The European Union awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. Ms. Power even mentions the International Criminal Court (ICC), how about the International Court of Justice in The Hague … Of course, the United States will never ratify a number of international treaties on humanitarian crisis and its solution. The US adheres to the slogan: “I’ll do it my way!”

The history of UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. The tragedy of UN troubleshooter Sergio Vieira de Mello’s death is that it could probably have been avoided – The Guardian.

Samantha Power: Shaking hands with the devil

TED 2008: Will Evil Prevail?

Political scientist Samantha Power tells the story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world’s worst dictators to help their people survive crisis. It’s a compelling story told with a fiery passion.

Harvard political scientist Samantha Power on genocide

Harvard political scientist and writer Samantha Power wrote a book on genocide, and a new one (just out) called “Chasing the flame“, a biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN envoy in Baghdad who was killed in the first suicide bombing in 2003 (book cover left). She is a powerful proponent of bringing human rights back to US foreign policy – see her essay on “The Human-Rights Vacuum“, arguing that the erosion of US influence around the world has created “a void in global human-rights leadership”. She may get her voice heard by the next president: she’s an adviser to Democratic candidate Barack Obama (she wears an Obama badge on stage).

On April 31st, 1994, in the middle of the Rwandan genocide, the NYT reported that 200 to 300’000 people had already been killed. An American congresswoman from Colorado met that day with a group of journalists, and one asked why there is so little response out of Washington, no hearings, no denouncing. She said: “It’s a great question All I can tell you is that in my congressional offices in Colorado and in Washington we are getting hundreds of calls about the endangered apes and gorilla populations in Rwanda, but no one is calling about the people”. The truth is that while we have developed endangered species movements, we don’t have an endangered people movement, we have a Holocaust museum but we haven’t really created the movement-of-never-again.

Samantha Power Goes to War

With the Arab world’s pro-democracy uprisings comes a resurgence for the “humanitarian hawks.”

(The Nation) March 30, 2011 – Power generalized from her Balkans experience to become an advocate of American and NATO military intervention in humanitarian crises, a position which became known as being a “humanitarian hawk.” She began to see war as an instrument to achieving her liberal, even radical, values. “The United States must also be prepared to risk the lives of its soldiers” to stop the threat of genocide, she wrote. She condemned Western “appeasement” of dictators. She believed that “the battle to stop genocide has been repeatedly lost in the realm of domestic politics.” In her mind, domestic concerns like discrimination and unemployment were secondary to foreign policy crises, a common attitude in the national security circles she was entering.

Impersonating her predecessor Susan Rice – Samantha Power, at confirmation hearing, faults U.N. for ‘disgrace’ in Syria. Laying blame by anyone but failed US Middle-East policy and the invasion of Iraq. Wasn’t the Iraq adventure by Bush and neocons an humanitarian disaster Ms. Power? It’s the fraud by US intelligence that cost the life of your hero UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and hundred of thousands more innocents. What an hypocrisy!

Still a good read, by Frank Schnittger Samantha Power, the Monster, and the Libyan Intervention on Sept. 12, 2011.

Oui on July 26, 2013 at 12:51 pm

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How on earth can Obama nominate Samantha Powers as the US Ambassador at the United Nations?

The Language of Power: Obama’s ‘Humanitarian Hawk’ & Israel’s New Gladiator at the UN

Power has already proven herself a loyal replacement of Susan Rice, disavowing any semblance of past critical thinking when it comes to Israeli human rights abuses and abrogation of international law and opposing fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear program. It is no surprise Washington hawks and even the Israeli government are falling over themselves to sing her praises.

In her confirmation hearing yesterday, Power revealed her adherence to AIPAC talking points, essentially working her way down the tried and true list of boilerplate phrases. “The United States has no greater friend in the world than the State of Israel,” she said, adding, “Israel is a country with whom we share security interests and, even more fundamentally, with whom we share core values – the values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.”

“America has a special relationship with Israel,” she stated, to the surprise of no one and the consternation of George Washington`s ghost. “I will stand up for Israel and work tirelessly to defend it,” she promised.

Cross-posted from BooMan’s fp story – What a Mess.

Oui on July 26, 2013 at 9:18 am

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Just watch the video clip, do I need to say more? I don’t think so … Obama nominated her to be our UN Ambassador. Not taking the United Nations seriously …

Who is this lady? Unbelievable what an stupid, incoherent presentation. How come the Republicans give their support in the nomination hearing? Samantha Power dare not take a stand on the atrocities by the Bush administration. She did do a book introduction: The Origins of Totalitarianism: Introduction by Samantha Power . In 2005, Booman blogger named human wrote a diary about this book by Hannah Arendt. I can’t imagine, Ms. Power has ever traveled to Europe and study what the EU is all about since the 2nd World War.

A few of her statements in the TED presentation of 2008:
In the 20th century, there was no anti-genocide movement.
European countries have not taken their responsibility to prevent a “never again” moment in history.

The European Union awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. Ms. Power even mentions the International Criminal Court (ICC), how about the International Court of Justice in The Hague … Of course, the United States will never ratify a number of international treaties on humanitarian crisis and its solution. The US adheres to the slogan: “I’ll do it my way!”

The history of UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. The tragedy of UN troubleshooter Sergio Vieira de Mello’s death is that it could probably have been avoided – The Guardian.

Samantha Power: Shaking hands with the devil

TED 2008: Will Evil Prevail?

Political scientist Samantha Power tells the story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world’s worst dictators to help their people survive crisis. It’s a compelling story told with a fiery passion.

Harvard political scientist Samantha Power on genocide

Harvard political scientist and writer Samantha Power wrote a book on genocide, and a new one (just out) called “Chasing the flame“, a biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN envoy in Baghdad who was killed in the first suicide bombing in 2003 (book cover left). She is a powerful proponent of bringing human rights back to US foreign policy – see her essay on “The Human-Rights Vacuum“, arguing that the erosion of US influence around the world has created “a void in global human-rights leadership”. She may get her voice heard by the next president: she’s an adviser to Democratic candidate Barack Obama (she wears an Obama badge on stage).

On April 31st, 1994, in the middle of the Rwandan genocide, the NYT reported that 200 to 300’000 people had already been killed. An American congresswoman from Colorado met that day with a group of journalists, and one asked why there is so little response out of Washington, no hearings, no denouncing. She said: “It’s a great question All I can tell you is that in my congressional offices in Colorado and in Washington we are getting hundreds of calls about the endangered apes and gorilla populations in Rwanda, but no one is calling about the people”. The truth is that while we have developed endangered species movements, we don’t have an endangered people movement, we have a Holocaust museum but we haven’t really created the movement-of-never-again.

Samantha Power Goes to War

With the Arab world’s pro-democracy uprisings comes a resurgence for the “humanitarian hawks.”

(The Nation) March 30, 2011 – Power generalized from her Balkans experience to become an advocate of American and NATO military intervention in humanitarian crises, a position which became known as being a “humanitarian hawk.” She began to see war as an instrument to achieving her liberal, even radical, values. “The United States must also be prepared to risk the lives of its soldiers” to stop the threat of genocide, she wrote. She condemned Western “appeasement” of dictators. She believed that “the battle to stop genocide has been repeatedly lost in the realm of domestic politics.” In her mind, domestic concerns like discrimination and unemployment were secondary to foreign policy crises, a common attitude in the national security circles she was entering.

Impersonating her predecessor Susan Rice – Samantha Power, at confirmation hearing, faults U.N. for ‘disgrace’ in Syria. Laying blame by anyone but failed US Middle-East policy and the invasion of Iraq. Wasn’t the Iraq adventure by Bush and neocons an humanitarian disaster Ms. Power? It’s the fraud by US intelligence that cost the life of your hero UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and hundred of thousands more innocents. What an hypocrisy!

Still a good read, by Frank Schnittger Samantha Power, the Monster, and the Libyan Intervention on Sept. 12, 2011.
Oui on July 26, 2013 at 12:51 pm

.
How on earth can Obama nominate Samantha Powers as the US Ambassador at the United Nations?

The Language of Power: Obama’s ‘Humanitarian Hawk’ & Israel’s New Gladiator at the UN

Power has already proven herself a loyal replacement of Susan Rice, disavowing any semblance of past critical thinking when it comes to Israeli human rights abuses and abrogation of international law and opposing fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear program. It is no surprise Washington hawks and even the Israeli government are falling over themselves to sing her praises.

In her confirmation hearing yesterday, Power revealed her adherence to AIPAC talking points, essentially working her way down the tried and true list of boilerplate phrases. “The United States has no greater friend in the world than the State of Israel,” she said, adding, “Israel is a country with whom we share security interests and, even more fundamentally, with whom we share core values – the values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.”

“America has a special relationship with Israel,” she stated, to the surprise of no one and the consternation of George Washington`s ghost. “I will stand up for Israel and work tirelessly to defend it,” she promised.

Cross-posted from BooMan’s fp story – What a Mess.

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