There are certain points in the history of a country that an ambassador needs to know, so that when they stand up top speak they do not put their foot, and by extension the foot of their country, so deep down their throat that it comes out the far end to be available to kick themselves with.
Ambassador to the UN is like being Ambassador to all the countries of the world, including the ones we do not officially have diplomatic relations with. The position should be held by the best of the best we have serving the State Department. Instead, we get a reflection of the Community Organizer in Chief with no real diplomatic experience:
Samantha Power began her career by covering the Yugoslav Wars as a journalist. From 1998 to 2002 Power served as the Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she later served as the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy. She was a senior adviser to Senator Barack Obama until March 2008, when she resigned from his presidential campaign under controversy.
Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008, and was named Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council — responsible for running the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights — positions that she held from January 2009 to March 2013. In April 2012, Obama chose her to chair a newly formed Atrocities Prevention Board. During her time in office, Power’s office focused on such issues as the reform of the UN; the promotion of women's rights and LGBT rights; the promotion of religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities; the protection of refugees; the campaign against human trafficking; and the promotion of human rights and democracy, including in the Middle East and North Africa, Sudan, and Burma. She is considered to be a key figure within the Obama administration in persuading the president to intervene militarily in Libya.[2]
Power has written or co-edited four books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (author) a study of the U.S. foreign policy response to genocide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_PowerAnd as for that other [expletive deleted] - saying "I'm sorry" does not cut it for anybody, unless they also do something to try and rectify the harm they caused. Some folks go to prison and think that repays their debt (it does not). Some folks become involved in replacing the things they stole/destroyed in hopes of repaying their debt (that works). Some folks use their money to advance/sustain doing good in some other area because they can never fix the harm in the area in which they screwed up (that often works). That [expletive deleted] has done none of the things mentioned.
The next time Oprah lays on hands to heal someone she might consider that for certain people the hands need to be clenched into fists before they are laid on.
stay safe.
