Samantha Power, a key Obama adviser, called in 2002 for billions of dollars in US military aid to Israel to be invested instead in Palestine and in a "mammoth" US-backed military force to impose a solution to the "Palestine-Israeli situation" on the pretext of preventing Rwanda-like genocide.
The Irish-born Power, pegged as a leading candidate for a top foreign policy position in a prospective Obama administration, perhaps NSC Advisor or even Secretary of State, left the Obama campaign after she was quoted as calling Hillary Clinton a "monster."
But that dismissal did not reflect a reduction in her influence on Obama's thinking. And when it comes to the Mideast, her views of Israel and American Jews appear to resemble those of Obama's democratic rival.
A video clip from a 2002 interview reveals Power calling for US moves that "might mean alienating a domestic constituency," she snickered coyly, "of tremendous political and financial import", candidly calling for "sacrificing ... billions of dollars not in servicing the Israeli military but rather investing in the new state of Palestine" and in a "mammoth protection force."
Power suggested that the US would need to send a "meaningful military presence" to go in on a scale greater than any previous force. Though "imposition of a solution on unwilling parties is as a "dreadful, a terrible thing to do, fundamentally undemocratic," she said, it was essential to stop Israeli and Palestinian leaders who seem "politically destined to destroy the lives of their own peoples." She suggested that just as "external intervention" in Rwanda might have prevented genocide, doing the the same in "Palestine-Israeli situation" would likely prove "lesser of evils."
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...How can anybody take this guy seriously?
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I think it's really sad that someone would put so much time into such a weird and hateful website. I respect your right to your own opinion and free speech, but now is not the time to be divided by politics. I do take Barack Hussein Obama very seriously. He has more experience in politics than I will ever have, and pointing out extremist views on Obama is not going to change the fact that he stands for the potential and willingness of the United States people to change. I would consider coming off your virtual soapbox and looking around, we live in a beautiful country with good people. Don't shut yourself off.
Namaste.
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