RW Talking Point: Obama's Women of War

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power pushed Obama into accepting the demands of neoconservatives and enter the civil war in Libya, says Robert Dreyfuss.

www.rightpundits.com/?p=8438

That a diplomatic team led by Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power advocated military action against Gaddafi may be a footnote in the Libyan conflict—but it is a significant mark of our nation's evolution, argues John Avlon.

The Libyan airstrikes mark the first time in U.S. history that a female-dominated diplomatic team has urged military action.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and the influential Office of Multilateral and Human Rights Director Samantha Power to argue for airstrikes against Libya. Their advice triggered an abrupt shift in U.S. policy, overturning more cautious administrations' counselors.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/13047_libyaairstrikeshillaryclintonandthewomenwhocalledforwar


So Obama’s women wanted war against Libya. We’d like to think that women in power would somehow be less pro-war, but in the Obama administration it appears that the bellicosity is worst among Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power. All three are liberal interventionists, and all three seem to believe that when the United States exercises military force it has some profound, moral, life-saving character to it. Far from it. Unless President Obama’s better instincts manage to reign in his warrior women -- and happily, there’s a chance of that -- the United States could find itself engaged in open war in Libya, and soon. The troika pushed Obama into accepting the demands of neoconservatives, such as the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, along with various other liberal interventionists outside the administration, such as John Kerry. The rode roughshod over the realists in the administration.

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The press is full of reports about how Clinton, Rice, and Power pushed Obama to war. The New York Times, citing insiders, reports that Obama shifted to intervention in Libya only under pressure from the trio: “The change became possible, though, only after Mrs. Clinton joined Samantha Power, a senior aide at the National Security Council, and Susan Rice, Mr. Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, who had been pressing the case for military action, according to senior administration officials speaking only on condition of anonymity.”
Similarly, the Washington Post reports that yet another administration woman, Gayle Smith, joined Ben Rhodes and the troika of other women to push for war: “Obama’s decision to participate in military operations marks a victory for a faction of liberal interventionists within the administration, including Rice, Rhodes and National Security Council senior directors Samantha Power and Gayle Smith.” Opposed, or leaning against, were Secretary of Defense Gates, Tom Donilon, the national security adviser, and John Brennan, Obama’s counterterrorism chief.

www.alternet.org/world/150311/obama's_women_of_war


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Phew....I smell a huge Turdblossom mixed with some Krystalrhea?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I think it's hilarious that the wingers, who usually are happy

as pigs in shit to be lobbing missiles at somebody somewhere, get their panties in a wad when a Democratic president initiates some kind of military operation. Then suddenly they're a bunch of tie-dyed anti-war treehuggers. Guess what matters is not what is being done, but who does it.

[krabigirl]

2. Well, hillary has always been pretty much a war hawk, but the neocons like rice were as well.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. that's Susan Rice not Condi they are talking about

[dkf]

4. So the left wing would never wonder at the weirdness of this?

Yeesh.

After hearing it was the women that pushed us into this I began to think we need to include women in the draft too, something I really really dislike.