I'd been wondering what Samantha Power had been up to in the bowels of the White House—apart from making up excuses to herself about why it's fine for her to stay in an administration that has failed to recognize the Armenian genocide, even though Power herself explicitly promised Armenian Americans that Obama would 'cause he's so honest.
But it turns out she's on the job!
—Jonathan Schwarz
But it turns out she's on the job!
White House officials sent an e-mail to more than a dozen foreign policy experts in Washington, asking them to come in for a meeting on Monday morning. “Apologies for the short notice in light of a very fluid situation,” the e-mail said. The Roosevelt Room meeting, led by Benjamin Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, and two other National Security Council officials, Daniel Shapiro and Samantha Power, examined unrest in the region, and the potential for the protests to spread, according to several attendees.Among the people invited was noted expert/criminal Elliot Abrams. Here's Abrams' mother-in-law Midge Decter being admirably honest in 2004:
"We're not in the Middle East to bring sweetness and light to the world. We're there to get something we and our friends in Europe depend on. Namely, oil."Lucky Egyptians.
—Jonathan Schwarz
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