Monty Python had a sketch of Hitler surviving and going to Britain to run in a by-election. His entourage have only slightly changed names. You can guess who Ron Ribbentrop was.
It was all very comic opera and so is our foreign policy if you are paying attention. Samantha Power, our UN Ambassador is slick as was von R, but she is selling a dishonest policy to the world body.
Doing a great job dissecting it is a show on RT. My Yankee chauvinism bubbles up and I confess to ambivalence about RT as a source, but as they say about the folks coming across the border, they are doing the jobs Americans don't want to do.
So, I watched the video and Salon's Patrick Smith was quick out of the box to distill Sam's role. He called her an excellent rep for US policy. Problem is the nature of that policy. Hey Ron served Dolph well so that's what diplos do I guess. Smith is right and most of the rest of the show was elaborating on that theme.
I had not been aware of Mr. Smith, but he batted it out of the park. This is not to disparage the panelists, Daniel McAdams and Scott Rickard, they worked well also.
Anyway, watch the embedded video at this link.
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