Samantha Power is currently the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), after having served in various positions during the Obama administration. Power delivered a speech today which opened with this line:
the opening of line of a speech Samantha Power gave today: "Good afternoon. I come bearing a simple message: if you want peace in this world, trust women to deliver it."
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) July 2, 2021
Glenn Greenwald’s irony detector has overheated:
https://t.co/PXIVV9pw3h pic.twitter.com/6YfSiuyMC1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 2, 2021
Claiming that women leaders are more inclined to pursue particular foreign policies by virtue of their gender seems regressive and reductive to me, but hearing supreme military-interventionist Samantha Power of all people proclaim women will avoid war is too much irony to bear.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 2, 2021
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 2, 2021
“We came, we saw, he died.” *cackle*
It’s also worth noting that Samantha Power was among those on the Left who didn’t like it one bit when then-President Trump tweeted an American flag picture after Soleimani was killed.
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