“The Cruise Missile Left”: Samantha Power and the Genocide Gambits | Global Research

“The Cruise Missile Left”: Samantha Power and the Genocide Gambits | Global Research:

 This article written nine years ago in May 2004 brings to light the position of so-called “Progressives” which Edward Herman describes as “The Cruise Missile Left” pertaining to humanitarian intervention.

The word “genocide” is often used to describe crimes committed by countries which are the victims rather than the perpetrators of war. The issue is rarely raised in relation to the crimes committed by the United States and Israel.

This article is of particular relevance to stance of US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, who is pushing for a military intervention in Syria on “humanitarian” grounds.

Professor Herman refers to Samantha Power’s earlier book “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide as follows(emphasis added)