Amb. Power Puts Huge Foot in Mouth with ‘Cycle of Violence’
Yori Yanover
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/amb-power-puts-huge-foot-in-mouth-with-cycle-of-violence-comment/2014/02/24/0/
Published: February 24th, 2014
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power and her boss in the State Dept. are just not very smart. Powerful and tenacious, yes. Intelligent – really not.
Samantha Power @AmbassadorPower Daniel Pearl’s story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence. @DanielPearlFNDN
Last night, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA proudly presented the 2013-14 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, featuring Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, with an introduction by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Dignified, right? Black tie? Check. Very clear right and wrong – check.
So what happened? In one instant, in a flash of unintended honesty, Ambassador Powers showed she learned absolutely nothing, but I mean zero, zilch, nada, from the Daniel Pearl tragedy. She showed that she is as unqualified to give the Daniel Pearl annual speech as, I don’t know, Noam Chomsky, maybe.
Daniel Pearl is in the category of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria kind of historical figures, whose life’s achievements tend to be blurred over the years, until, eventually, they are remembered only for their final few moments. The Archduke will be forever remembered as the man whose assassination by a radical in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, ushered in the First World War. Daniel Pearl was the Wall Street Journal brave hearted reporter who was kidnapped and executed by a jihadist group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. Pearl was decapitated on video after 9 days of captivity. He will be forever honored for his unabashed statement, on camera: “My name is Daniel Pearl, I am an American Jew.”
Millions of us have been deeply disturbed by the Daniel Pearl murder. It touched so many previously universal assumptions and turned them upside down: the assumption that no one wants to hurt the press, since everybody wants good press for themselves – wrong; the assumption that when criminals are showing their victims on video it is to extract some kind of ransom, and so as long as the video is running, the victim is safe – wrong; and, of course, the ultimate assumption, that every enemy has a cause over which we can eventually bargain with them, until we meet half way – really, really wrong.
The fact is, millions of us have walked away from the Daniel Pearl execution with the universal conviction that the only way to go now must be to annihilate these bastards, until they’re all dead and gone. It was a Churchill in Dunkirk moment, following which the old bulldog gave his heroic “we shall fight them on the beaches” speech. Just as there was no possibility to negotiate with Hitler in 1940, there’s no negotiating with the jihadists. They are enemies of humanity and must all be exterminated – that’s what the entire civilized world took from the Pearl beheading.
Well, not the entire civilized world, as it turns out. I don’t have a copy of what U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power told the good folks at UCLA last night. She probably touched all the bases. But I do have her tweets in front of me, and they’re stunning. The first one is totally on the money, no problem there:
We must be vigilant in protecting the rights of the press. 2013 = 2nd highest # of journalist deaths and arrests all-time. @DanielPearlFNDN
To those of you who don’t speak fluent Tweet, Powers is citing herself at the foundation speech, giving her followers the gist of her message. And, of course, it’s unacceptable that close allies of the United States, such as Turkey and the Palestinian Authority, have been detaining journalists, photographers and even people making unflattering Facebook entries. She was called on it, of course, by a few of her Tweeter followers:
. Casey Kim: You’re part of the same administration who just suggested brining in the FCC to monitor newsrooms.
RDPinRVA: Pearl was killed by terrorists who deserve to burn in hell, has nothing to do with freedom of the press or accountability.
But then the ambassador tweeted the money tweet, the gastrointestinal blast that cannot be retrieved, and all hell broke loose: OMG. She actually said that. She proposed an equation in which two sides, the jihadists and Daniel Pearl were each engaged in violence against each other, and look what happened. I’m not going to add much to this, I’m just going to copy and paste some of the responses:
Zathras: To what “cycle of violence” are you referring? The man had his throat cut for being a Jew.
AG: Can you elaborate? What should Pearl have been accountable for? Should he have reconciled with Al Qaeda?
Tom O’C: What the hell is wrong with you? Rick Wilson: How, precisely, does one reconcile with medieval savages who traffic in videotaped decapitation porn?
SooperMex: Hopefully Ambassador Power is just stringing together liberal claptrap word salad, because if she means anything intentional, she’s insane…
John Hinderaker: What on Earth are you talking about? That made no sense at all.
Tom O’C: I’m thinking a bad coke binge.
Razor: What specific steps would you have taken to avoid meeting his fate once captured? Or are you blaming the victim for that?
FactsAreThat: Here comes another idiot.
And that last one, dear reader, is probably the most astute analysis of this woman and her boss in the State Dept. They’re just not very smart. Powerful and tenacious, yes. Intelligent – really not. I believe the following video clip says it all: Chicollini here may look like an idiot and sound like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you, he really is an idiot.
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/amb-power-puts-huge-foot-in-mouth-with-cycle-of-violence-comment/2014/02/24/0/
Yori Yanover
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/amb-power-puts-huge-foot-in-mouth-with-cycle-of-violence-comment/2014/02/24/0/
Published: February 24th, 2014
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power and her boss in the State Dept. are just not very smart. Powerful and tenacious, yes. Intelligent – really not.
Samantha Power @AmbassadorPower Daniel Pearl’s story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence. @DanielPearlFNDN
Last night, the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA proudly presented the 2013-14 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, featuring Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, with an introduction by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Dignified, right? Black tie? Check. Very clear right and wrong – check.
So what happened? In one instant, in a flash of unintended honesty, Ambassador Powers showed she learned absolutely nothing, but I mean zero, zilch, nada, from the Daniel Pearl tragedy. She showed that she is as unqualified to give the Daniel Pearl annual speech as, I don’t know, Noam Chomsky, maybe.
Daniel Pearl is in the category of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria kind of historical figures, whose life’s achievements tend to be blurred over the years, until, eventually, they are remembered only for their final few moments. The Archduke will be forever remembered as the man whose assassination by a radical in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, ushered in the First World War. Daniel Pearl was the Wall Street Journal brave hearted reporter who was kidnapped and executed by a jihadist group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. Pearl was decapitated on video after 9 days of captivity. He will be forever honored for his unabashed statement, on camera: “My name is Daniel Pearl, I am an American Jew.”
Millions of us have been deeply disturbed by the Daniel Pearl murder. It touched so many previously universal assumptions and turned them upside down: the assumption that no one wants to hurt the press, since everybody wants good press for themselves – wrong; the assumption that when criminals are showing their victims on video it is to extract some kind of ransom, and so as long as the video is running, the victim is safe – wrong; and, of course, the ultimate assumption, that every enemy has a cause over which we can eventually bargain with them, until we meet half way – really, really wrong.
The fact is, millions of us have walked away from the Daniel Pearl execution with the universal conviction that the only way to go now must be to annihilate these bastards, until they’re all dead and gone. It was a Churchill in Dunkirk moment, following which the old bulldog gave his heroic “we shall fight them on the beaches” speech. Just as there was no possibility to negotiate with Hitler in 1940, there’s no negotiating with the jihadists. They are enemies of humanity and must all be exterminated – that’s what the entire civilized world took from the Pearl beheading.
Well, not the entire civilized world, as it turns out. I don’t have a copy of what U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power told the good folks at UCLA last night. She probably touched all the bases. But I do have her tweets in front of me, and they’re stunning. The first one is totally on the money, no problem there:
We must be vigilant in protecting the rights of the press. 2013 = 2nd highest # of journalist deaths and arrests all-time. @DanielPearlFNDN
To those of you who don’t speak fluent Tweet, Powers is citing herself at the foundation speech, giving her followers the gist of her message. And, of course, it’s unacceptable that close allies of the United States, such as Turkey and the Palestinian Authority, have been detaining journalists, photographers and even people making unflattering Facebook entries. She was called on it, of course, by a few of her Tweeter followers:
. Casey Kim: You’re part of the same administration who just suggested brining in the FCC to monitor newsrooms.
RDPinRVA: Pearl was killed by terrorists who deserve to burn in hell, has nothing to do with freedom of the press or accountability.
But then the ambassador tweeted the money tweet, the gastrointestinal blast that cannot be retrieved, and all hell broke loose: OMG. She actually said that. She proposed an equation in which two sides, the jihadists and Daniel Pearl were each engaged in violence against each other, and look what happened. I’m not going to add much to this, I’m just going to copy and paste some of the responses:
Zathras: To what “cycle of violence” are you referring? The man had his throat cut for being a Jew.
AG: Can you elaborate? What should Pearl have been accountable for? Should he have reconciled with Al Qaeda?
Tom O’C: What the hell is wrong with you? Rick Wilson: How, precisely, does one reconcile with medieval savages who traffic in videotaped decapitation porn?
SooperMex: Hopefully Ambassador Power is just stringing together liberal claptrap word salad, because if she means anything intentional, she’s insane…
John Hinderaker: What on Earth are you talking about? That made no sense at all.
Tom O’C: I’m thinking a bad coke binge.
Razor: What specific steps would you have taken to avoid meeting his fate once captured? Or are you blaming the victim for that?
FactsAreThat: Here comes another idiot.
And that last one, dear reader, is probably the most astute analysis of this woman and her boss in the State Dept. They’re just not very smart. Powerful and tenacious, yes. Intelligent – really not. I believe the following video clip says it all: Chicollini here may look like an idiot and sound like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you, he really is an idiot.
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/amb-power-puts-huge-foot-in-mouth-with-cycle-of-violence-comment/2014/02/24/0/
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