Obama's Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Samantha Power-2/4

Barack Obama's Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Samantha Power on Obama's Call to Increase the Pentagon's Budget, Hugo Chavez, Funding the Iraq Occupation and Attacking Pakistan
Samantha Power discusses Obama's foreign policy platform and why she temporarily left her post at Harvard University to advise the presidential candidate. [includes rush transcript]

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[truthlovver]

"afghanistan has been neglected." obama, on the foreign relations committee, has neglected afghanistan for roughly the past year.

[AbtinX]

I agree, think about the Gaza Strip or Lebanon, or Iraq, and realize what increadible restraint those people have. If the crimes that are comitted over there were comitted for just a single day in the United States or Britain or Israel nukes would be flying across the sky

[8Marx8]

She is being evasive on the military funding issue! Her execuse of the "complexity of the matter" is lame at best!

[ecgospelg]

Yeah they really have. They know how high the stakes are. I hope we can reach a worldwide agreement to the disarmament of nukes. As fragile and dysfunctional as our human nature currently is, we're not meant to possess such power.

[ecgospelg]

We can't straddle both sides and claim the higher moral ground in the name of our own safety. Hypocrisy will bite us in the butt eventually.

[ecgospelg]

Although I know the Iraq war has little to do with Alqaida, taliban, and more to do with the oil in that nation. How sad that so many innocent people have died so we could secure our oil reserves. But what I was saying is that the nuking will happen if extremists aren't kept at bay by all nations who oppose violence for material gain, power, and status. As of now these are the very reasons most governments condone wars.

[ecgospelg]

Thx for commenting back Abtinx. My previous reflection was a face value one and I will have to do some more research on Ms. Power. But as far as nuking is concerned I was talking about the brewing conflict that arises from violent extremism: The domino effect it has on it's nations and the world. Look at 9/11. 100's of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghan's have died because 7,000 precious lives were lost. Talk about extreme escalation.

[AbtinX]

exactly

[AbtinX]

That's why he IS the head of the afghan comittee .. people don't listen to these machines of imperialist policy. Everything they say means absolutely nothing, just focus on what they do and what they have done, what they have done is usually what they will do in the future, regardless of their rethoric

[AbtinX]

Well he is pretty much saying what I was saying but with some nasty language added. And what is really nasty langauge compared to mass murder and bombings? She is a carrierist-minded apologist for atrocities not yet comitted, and that's what makes her so horrible. The next generation of imperialism with a human face attached to it

[AbtinX]

That's just what she is doing and you are falling for it, she blends war with humanitarian assistance instead of using some "fear tactic". Don't be fooled. She is just as bad as anyone before her. And you can't nuke terrorism ... you are not making any sense