First, the question which led up to the quote
Let me give you a thought experiment here, and it is the following: without addressing the Palestine – Israel problem, let’s say you were an advisor to the President of the United States, how would you respond to current events there? Would you advise him to put a structure in place to monitor that situation, at least if one party or another [starts] looking like they might be moving toward genocide?
Harry Kreisler – Director of International Studies @ UCBerkeley
And now, the answer
What we don’t need is some kind of early warning mechanism there, what we need is a willingness to put something on the line in helping the situation. Putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially 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. Because it seems to me at this stage (and this is true of actual genocides as well, and not just major human rights abuses, which were seen there), you have to go in as if you’re serious, you have to put something on the line.
Samantha Power – Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy @ Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
You might remember her as the woman who called Hillary Clinton a “monster” last Summer and was subsequently thrown under the bus by the Obama campaign.
Well, bygones are apparently bygone, and she’s back with the Obama Team.
Sadly, she is a senior foreign policy adviser to a President.
However, I suspect that she is not been all that far away. She is in a long term relationship with he who would give you dog the right to sue you for the neutering, Cass Sunstein.