She was born in Ireland in 1970, the daughter of a doctor mother and a dentist father. Power’s early years exemplified the peripatetic privilege of the global bourgeoisie. The most startling thing about a book titled The Education of an Idealist is that Power appears not to have learned very much. It’s the story of a sympathetic protagonist just trying to save innocent lives-yet one that inadvertently demonstrates the lethality of good intentions. Against these tides, Power’s new book seems intended to rehabilitate both her agenda and her own reputation, as she narrates in vivid and engaging prose her rapid rise to some of the most influential positions in U.S. Power’s memoir arrives at a time when she and her approach have fallen from favor-both with the current administration, which has adopted a nakedly transactional approach to foreign affairs, and with left-wing foreign policy thinkers, who want to dismantle U.S. When civilians are threatened, Power believes we must save them. military adventurism or violating foreign nations’ sovereignty. First as a war reporter covering the Balkans in the 1990s, then as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of “ A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide, and finally as a government official herself, Power has insisted that the “responsibility to protect” innocents from slaughter is sacrosanct, even if it means U.S.
Power has dedicated her life to promoting humanitarian intervention-the idea that the United States, as the world’s “indispensable nation,” has the moral duty to use its awesome military capabilities to prevent or halt atrocities. ambassador to the United Nations during Barack Obama’s second term, this really is no question at all: You eliminate the weapons. What should Bernie do?įor Samantha Power, who served as U.S. The townspeople have requested that the United States destroy the weapons and save their lives.
After being seated at a long wooden table, a group of diplomats and military officers informs Bernie that armed militants in the Central African Republic have placed artillery around a town and are threatening to bombard its 10,000 inhabitants. On his second day as commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in world history, Bernie and his foreign policy team are ushered into the White House Situation Room. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Let’s say it’s January 2021, and President Bernie Sanders has just assumed office.
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