Foreign Policy: March 2011 Archives

Did I listen to the President's speech about our involvement in Libya this evening? Nope. Not to a single word.

Am I disinterested in what he had to say? Nope, not at all.

So why didn't I watch the speech? It's quite simple, really.

It's because I find it very difficult to watch as his head swivels back and forth between the two teleprompter screens. It's distracting as hell. Plus I find his cadence to be equally annoying.

Instead, I read it from the White House website. I can usually read it far faster than he can give it and I'm less annoyed than if I watched him read it.

I read her book several years ago. Being left of center, she couldn't help drastically softpedaling on criticizing the Vietnam war protesters--when the book was about American inaction that led to genocide, which is what happened in Indochina.

Now this.

Reply 1 - Posted by: Guillermo Fuego, 3/23/2011 12:34:41 AM     (No. 7477289)
It is called "R2P", pushed by Samantha Power. R2P is the code word for Responsibility to Protect, a burden that the US has assumed to protect the peoples of the world from cruel dictators as proscribed in UN resolution #1973.

Samantha Power has assumed a leadership role in directing US foreign policy, and she is behind this.

And all this time the Constitution said Congress, not the UN, was given the duty to declare war, something that hasn't happened since 1942.

We've been here before, but Ronnie Reagan put that to rights.

Maybe it's time to do it again.