Saturday, March 26, 2011

Irish- born, U.S.-raised baseball loving redhead is the voice behind Obama's Libya action

President Barack Obama's decision to back a multilateral intervention in Libya suggests that [Samantha Power’s] voice is being heard. The 40-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Harvard academic is a senior adviser to Obama's national security team. She's also an Irish-born, U.S.-raised redhead with a deep voice, an abrupt manner and a love of baseball.

The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines," Power wrote in her book "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," for which she won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize. "America's leadership will be indispensable in encouraging U.S. allies and regional and international institutions to step up their commitments and capacities.”

Posted via email from edge & flow

No comments:

Post a Comment

 
/*