ADVISERS IN OBAMA’S IMAGE…..SEE NOTE PLEASE
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SUSAN RICE HAS THE GOODS ON BENGHAZI AND HAD TO BE REWARDED RATHER THAN SHELVED…..RSK
President Obama reshuffled his national security team Wednesday, and it’s a sign of the times that the reaction was mostly yawns. His choices for national security adviser and ambassador to the U.N. are loyalists who share Mr. Obama’s view that the U.S. is no longer the world’s “indispensable nation” (as Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once put it).
Some Republicans are squawking that Mr. Obama named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to the NSC post despite her post-Benghazi follies. But the position is the most personal in foreign policy and requires no Senate confirmation. Her false Benghazi spin cost her a promotion to Secretary of State, and Mr. Obama is now making amends by handing her the top White House security post.
She replaces Tom Donilon, a Hillary Clinton loyalist who served with discretion even if he leaves with the world a more dangerous place. Mr. Donilon helped to fulfill Mr. Obama’s desire to steer the U.S. out of old, and away from new, foreign entanglements. But the world’s troubles will not steer clear of us, so Ms. Rice will spend much of her time dodging the gathering storms. This includes trying to prevent Syria’s civil war from becoming a Russian-Iran strategic victory or a regional Shiite-Sunni war.
To replace Ms. Rice at the U.N., Mr. Obama chose Samantha Power, who was also present at his creation in the Senate and has worked at the White House. Ms. Power and Ms. Rice joined Mrs. Clinton in urging Mr. Obama to intervene in Libya, but otherwise Ms. Power shares Mr. Obama’s desire for a diminished U.S. role in the world.
Susan Rice (C) speaks in the Rose Garden after US President Barack Obama (R) named her his new national security adviser at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 05 June 2013. Obama also named Samantha Power (L) as the new US ambassador to the United Nations.
In 2003, Ms. Power wrote in the New Republic that much anti-Americanism in the world is irrational and wrong. But she added that “much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic, and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.” She suggested that “We need: a historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored, or permitted by the United States.” In other words, they will love her at the United Nations.
A version of this article appeared June 6, 2013, on page A16 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: In Obama’s Image.
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