As many of the responses point out, there was no way that Daniel Pearl could have avoided being murdered by jihadists by practicing “individual accountability & reconciliation.” Nor was he any part of a “cycle of violence”: he was a Wall Street Journal reporter. Power reveals by this tweet the entire wrongheaded mindset of the U.S. foreign policy establishment: that the way to deal with jihad is to seek “reconciliation” by making various concessions, and launching hearts and minds initiatives that shower money on the offenders in hopes that they will be bought off as “friends.”
Power is also, unsurprisingly, a vociferous foe of Israel. We tried to tell you: in our book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War On America, Pamela Geller and I wrote:
One Obama foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, resigned from the Obama campaign team under fire in March 2008 after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster.” Obama never seemed fazed by her calling in a 2002 interview with Harry Kreisler of the Institute for International Studies at Berkeley for military action against Israel to secure the creation of a Palestinian state.
Power said that establishing a Palestinian state would mean “sacrificing – or investing, I think, more than sacrificing – billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence.” She said that this would “require external intervention.”
Many observers quite reasonably concluded that in this Power meant that the United States should invade Israel in order to secure the creation and protection of a Palestinian state. Confronted about this during the Obama presidential campaign, Power made no attempt to explain or excuse her statement: “Even I don’t understand it…This makes no sense to me….The quote seems so weird.” She assured supporters of Israel that she did not believe in “imposing a settlement.”
Power’s anti-Israel bias was not limited to that one statement. When the much-hyped “Jenin Massacre” of 2002 turned out to have been a Palestinian propaganda operation rather than an actual massacre, Power remained skeptical, saying at a conference funded by George Soros: “I was struck by a [New York Times] headline that accompanied a news story on the publication of the Human Rights Watch report. The headline was, I believe: ‘Human Rights Reports Finds Massacre Did Not Occur in Jenin.’ The second paragraph said, ‘Oh, but lots of war crimes did.’ Why wouldn’t they make the war crimes the headline and the non-massacre the second paragraph?” National Review’s Michael Rubin commented: “It is questionable whether any war crimes occurred in Jenin, except of course the war crimes associated with Palestinian assembly of suicide bombs which Palestinian terrorists — not uniformed officials — used to target civilians on buses and elderly in hotels. But, that does not seem to be what Samantha Power means.”…
“U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power Facing Criticism Over This Tweet,” by Sharona Schwartz for The Blaze, February 24:
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power received a torrent of negative responses after posting a tweet Sunday evening that some interpreted as suggesting Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s killing could have been prevented by “individual accountability & reconciliation.”
Here’s what she wrote:
Daniel Pearl’s story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence. @DanielPearlFNDN
Samantha PowerAnd here are some of the responses:
@AmbassadorPower To what “cycle of violence” are you referring? The man had his throat cut for being a Jew.
Zathras
.@AmbassadorPower @DanielPearlFNDN Can you elaborate? What should Pearl have been accountable for? Should he have reconciled with Al Qaeda?
@AmbassadorPower Reconciliation? With people who cut his head off because he’s Jewish and American? They referred to him as “the Jew”.
SunnyRight
@AmbassadorPower How, precisely, does on reconcile with medieval savages who traffic in videotaped decapitation porn?
Rick WilsonFive hours after she posted her tweet, not one response on her twitter line was of a positive nature….






Any infidel insults Islam ,I will put him under my feet says
Allah Akbar
CogitoErgoSum says
Hey, thanks for setting me straight. At first I thought Ms. Power was talking about Daniel Pearl, but now I see she must be referring to Islam and its followers. Yes, individual accountability and the cycle of violence…….your screen name and your comment sum it all up for me perfectly.
gravenimage says
“Any infidel insults Islam ,I will put him under my feet” wrote:
Allah Akbar
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What would “reconciliation” look like with such an aggressive supremacist Mohammedan as this? Complete and utter submission.
iamsurrounded says
Let’s go with annihilation instead.
Jesus Is Lord says
What is the worst insult to Islam? Whatever it is insert here : _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now go back to your herd
RodSerling says
“Any infidel insults Islam ,I will put him under my feet
Allah Akbar”
You got duped or pressured into Islam. No adult of fair mind and good will accepts something as evil and absurd as Islam freely based on its substance. Islam is for the most part a system of obedience/submission (deen) of rape, murder, genocide, terrorism, subjugation, slavery, extortion, theft, deception, hatred, violence, mutilation, misogyny, racism, homophobia, arrogance, supremacy, superstition, ignorance, and stupidity. More people have been murdered, raped, and enslaved due to Islam than due to any other religious or non-religious ideology. In short, Islam maximizes and exploits potential for evil in the human being so that a few Muslim males, especially Arab Muslim males, may rule over others.
So relax, put your feet up. I’ve done my research on Islam and Muslims. I have not done anything so childish as to have “insulted” Islam, though some Muslims may be egotistical enough to think that legitimate true criticisms are ‘insults.” I have merely given an educated, critical assessment of some of the problems, and can readily unload copious evidence here to support each of my above charges. If you want to do something beneficial with your life instead of being a slave to a few Arab Muslim men (who laugh at you behind your back), start opposing FGM, slavery, rape, murder of children, etc, which Muslims are committing today.
mortimer says
Blather. Someone who has knee-jerk reactions to everything and a glib, quick tongue should not be in diplomacy. Sober, lengthy thought, carefully weighing every word for nuance, restraint in saying or promising too much, those are the qualities required. Samantha Power is a blatherskite, a person who talks at great length without making much sense.
A reasonable person can only mention the murder of Daniel Pearl with great moral outrage. She failed to express any outrage at all.
nothosaur says
Excellent comment, well said.
King Dave Newsvine says
Victim blaming
Larry A. Singleton says
Man, I just can’t win. I can’t get JW to appear on Internet Explorer. It just comes up a big white screen for some reason. Google Chrome is a confusing pain in the ass. Not least of which is having to increase the page size on every stinking link. I thought I’d saved “favorites” so that I could come back and look at the comments but… …nope. Just the regular JW page. I just noticed a message that Microsoft is no longer going to be having anything to do with Security Essentials??? I don’t know if it’s this crummy laptop or what but half the websites seem to be dysfunctional in one way or the other; Disqus comments is TOTALLY dysfunctional. At every level.
How about that; you spell “dysfunctional” with a “y”. Well, at least I learned something. I’ve been spelling it with an “i”. At least there’s that huh?
marclouis says
could be worse…
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/software-services/End-of-Windows-XP-34K-bank-branches-to-be-hit/articleshow/25650026.cms
BTW this site does not use Disqus.
nabi ZK (pbum) aka zonie kafir says
Greetings “Any infidel insults Islam ,I will put him under my feet”. I am nabi ZK (pbum) and I, nabi ZK (pbum), am your true nabi. Do not accept the evil rantings of that deranged mass murderer who the mohametans call their prophet and worship as a god. Accept and follow instead my rantings which hurt no one. That is all.
nabi ZK (pbum)
Jay Boo says
AWAKEN from this make-believe coexistent dhimwittitude La La Land Samantha.
Samantha Power is the one who needs to practice individual accountability.
profitsbeard says
Samantha has all the gravitas of a dust mote.
And the brains of a dust mite.
veggiedog says
She works for a man that wants our destruction. What does the next “Progressive” Administration have in store for us! The GOP is a non entity unless they change their tactics, but they will not.
Always On Watch says
Samantha Power (married to Cass Sunstein) has issued a correction.
Spew alert!
She has changed the ampersand to — get ready for it — a + sign.
You can’t make this stuff up!
gravenimage says
UN Ambassador Samantha Power: “Daniel Pearl’s story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence”
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*Repulsive* blaming of the victim.
Moreover, anyone who knows the least thing about him knows that if a commitment to “reconciliation” were all it took, that the gentle and decent Danny Pearl would be alive today.
His only mistake was that he believed in the decency of those who betrayed, kidnapped, and murdered him.
More:
As many of the responses point out, there was no way that Daniel Pearl could have avoided being murdered by jihadists by practicing “individual accountability & reconciliation.” Nor was he any part of a “cycle of violence”: he was a Wall Street Journal reporter.
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*Absolutely*. Danny Pearl presented no threat to his killers, or to anyone else.
Good to see so many responders recognize this.
In fact, the only danger Danny Pearl presented was that he tended to be overly optimistic in his coverage, and to underestimate the danger presented by some of the vicious Muslims he dealt with.
More:
Power reveals by this tweet the entire wrongheaded mindset of the U.S. foreign policy establishment: that the way to deal with jihad is to seek “reconciliation” by making various concessions, and launching hearts and minds initiatives that shower money on the offenders in hopes that they will be bought off as “friends.”
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Utter madness. Moreover, this appeasement posits the initial false idea that Jihadists are targeting us because of something we did wrong—just as Power here implies that Danny Pearl deserved being savagely murdered.
More:
Power is also, unsurprisingly, a vociferous foe of Israel…
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Of course she is…
And Danny Pearl was butchered for being a Jew—the only way he could “reconcile” that with his murderers was to die.
JIMJFOX says
How do these numbskulls get into positions of power (no pun)?
Surely they’re voted in by DUMB ASS AMERICAN VOTERS??
empiresentry says
Just effing incredible….my head popped on this one. This is the person selected to be our diplomat, negotiator, responsible, courageous representative?
This was the choice from amongst the 350 million great people we have in the entire country?
I knew she was picked because she was the mating choice of Sustein. It doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be screwed over, also.
richard Sherman says
Muslims revere the SOCIOPATH MUHAMMAD WHO PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS in 627. Decapitating unarmed Jews is therefore foundational to Islam. Daniel Pearl was DECAPITATED by Muslims following the example of the sociopath MUHAMMAD. End of story.
1984 says
Reminds me of Whoopi Goldberg’s views on rape.
Cookiebaker says
Another example of mindless stupidity from Harvard.She taught there?Did she go to school there too?
Why are they, at Harvard, not renouncing her?
because she says what so many liberals think but are afraid to speak up and say!
Leith Wood says
Samantha, you are so full of yourself, so uninformed and delusional. What a bore. Daniel Pearl also informed his kidnappers that his father, his mother and he were Jews. That helped to seal his fate I’m sure. He did not die in vain.
Defcon 4 says
I think Mayor Koch quoted Daniel Pearl’s heartfelt last words about being a Jew on his gravestone.
This is just one reason I’ll never bother surrendering to islam0nazis — regardless of whether or not they’re LEO’s.
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