Egypt: Paging Samantha Power!
John Glaser: Think back a couple weeks and recall the political narratives accompanying Obama’s pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, the journalist and Harvard scholar at the forefront of the debate over humanitarian interventions for the past decade. Foreign Policy’s John Hudson described Power’s “staunch advocacy of U.S. intervention on moral grounds.” Max Boot said she is a “principled advocate of humanitarian intervention.” But now that the post-military coup U.S.-backed Egyptian autocracy has slaughtered more than 500 people in the streets, asks Jacob Heillbrunn at The National Interest, where is Samantha Power?