The Arrogance of Power
P. Schultz
December 19, 2013
Senator
William Fulbright wrote a book entitled The
Arrogance of Power. And as the title seemed appropriate then, when the
United States was bombing Vietnam “back into the stone age,” so it seems appropriate
yet again. Here is the lead paragraph from an article in the New York Times
today.
“The American
ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, landed in this besieged
capital early on Thursday with what she called a blunt and simple message: The
United States is watching.”
What
could be stranger than the message, “The United States is watching,”
especially given our wonderfully
successful interventions throughout the past few decades and most recently in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Libya. I think Samantha Power is either (a) a good comedian or
(b) so arrogant as to be delusional. As she is an academic, I am going with
(b).
There
is a link to the article below.
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