Christopher Hitchens’s Legacy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 26th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Christopher Hitchens’s Legacy
Jeremy Harding, London Review of Books
Samantha Power’s Activist Role
Lakshmanan and Nichols, Bloomberg
Samantha Power of the National Security Council, center, stands in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Pool via BloombergAs a young journalist covering the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s, Samantha Power berated Peter Galbraith, then the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, for “not doing enough to stop the slaughter,”� Galbraith recalls.
The Weakest Commander-in-Chief Ever?
Nile Gardiner, Daily Telegraph
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released today reveals a striking lack of public confidence in President Obama's ability as Commander-in-Chief, with just 17 percent of Americans describing his leadership as “strong and decisive”�, compared to 36 percent who believe it is “indecisive and dithering”�. This should come as no surprise as the Obama administration floundered for several weeks before even committing to international efforts to rein in Colonel Gaddafi.As NATO prepares to take over command of the no-fly zone in Libya, there remains a great deal of confusion in…
