The latest buzz
coming out of beltway is that President Obama plans to appoint UN Ambassador
Susan Rice to the position of National Security Advisor. While Ambassador Rice
was forced to remove herself from consideration for the position of Secretary
of State due to the backlash against her perceived role in the Benghazi tragedy, if President Obama does appoint her
as his National Security Advisor, then she will not face confirmation.
Ambassador Rice’s
critics seized upon her role in the Benghazi incident to derail her nomination as
Secretary of State. Seen as particularly damning was her claim that the Benghazi demonstrations and resulting massacre were
caused by an anti-Islamic video rather than by blowback. Predictably, her
defenders made allegations that her critics were being racist and sexist.
However, any alleged incompetence on Ambassador Rice’s part pales in comparison
with her dangerous warmongering tendencies. Ambassador Rice should not be the
one whispering in President Obama’s ear about foreign policy because she has
never met an interventionist war that she did not like.
Ambassador Rice was
a vocal supporter of the Iraq War. In December of 2002 she said:
It’s clear that Iraq
poses a major threat. It’s clear that its weapons of mass destruction need to
be dealt with forcefully, and that’s the path we’re on. I think the question
becomes whether we can keep the diplomatic balls in the air and not drop any,
even as we move forward, as we must, on the military side.
Ambassador Rice was also a supporter of the surge in Afghanistan:
Al-Qaida is regrouping and
reconstituting their safe haven; the Taliban are gaining strength. Europe
is closer to that threat than we are. Yet, we all have to take it very
seriously. The US
has to put more resources and troops into Afghanistan,
and NATO should do the same, while – to the greatest extent possible – lifting
operational restrictions.
Ambassador Rice was one of the most vocal supporters of President
Obama’s unconstitutional “kinetic military action” in Libya.
So eager was she for war that she spread the preposterous rumor that Qaddafi’s
soldiers were using Viagra so that they could go out and rape. While Qaddafi
was a brutal dictator, the truth was that it was the Libyan rebels that were
carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” against Black Libyans.
Ambassador Rice is a strong advocate of “humanitarian”
interventionist wars. In 2006, she advocated using a UN force of 22,000 troops
to end the violence in Darfur. Of course, UN
“humanitarian” military actions will inevitably cost American blood and
treasure. In a world filled with tin pot dictators who do not respect the
natural rights of their citizens, there will be far too many tempting places
where Ambassador Rice might suggest that President Obama engage in “kinetic
military action” for “humanitarian” purposes. While she does not support arming
the rebels in Syria,
this opinion would not preclude a NATO bombing campaign just as it did not
preclude it in Libya.
President Obama’s drone campaign would make far too useful a tool in
slaughtering people all over the world for “humanitarian” purposes.
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