RT columnist Helen Buyniski ripped into Samantha Power, who has been named as Joe Biden’s choice to run the US Agency for International Development, for her disastrous Responsibility to Protect (R2P) policy and what Obama did with it. She hit the nail on the head:
“President-elect Joe Biden has rounded out his hyper-belligerent cabinet with Obama enabler Samantha Power, whose infamous ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine freed that president to bomb seven countries – a post-WWII-record,” Buyniski writes. “Thanks to the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine Power helped create, in which military intervention is ‘justified’ by the mere potential of genocide or mass slaughter, the commander-in-chief’s hands were freed to start wars without even the fig leaf of Congressional approval. Recasting acts of war as acts of humanitarianism was a stroke of brilliance, if a supremely evil one, and epitomized the double-standard the US has set for itself and NATO versus the rest of the world.”
