Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/26/Chasing_the_Flame_Sergio_Vieira_de_Mello
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Senior Adviser to Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama, revisits the debate between Obama and Hillary Clinton on whether the U.S. should negotiate with hostile governments without preconditions.
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Samantha Power on Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World.
Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of the greatest humanitarians of our time, and while surprisingly few people recognize his name, his role in our world becomes abundantly clear when you describe the details surrounding his death.
He died on the afternoon of August 19, 2003, when a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives alongside the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, killing over twenty people working there for the United Nations. Vieira de Mello, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy, was buried beneath the wreckage, under the UN flag itself.
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World is as much a biography of Vieira de Mello as it is a riveting account of the last four decades of global conflicts and our attempts to understand and resolve them.
Despite the tragic outcome in Iraq, the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello yields vital lessons for us today, providing us with his unique expertise on how to unite as nations, rebuild our international institutions, and establish peace and security in those parts of our world that need them the most – Cody’s BooksSamantha Power (born 1970) is a journalist, writer, and professor. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Power was raised in Ireland before emigrating to the United States in 1979. She attended Lakeside High School in Atlanta, GA. She was a member of the cross country team as well the basketball team. She is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. From 1993 to 1996, she covered the Yugoslav wars for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic.
She is a scholar of foreign policy especially as it relates to human rights, genocide, and AIDS. Her book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2003. She endorses the Genocide Intervention Network.
She spent 2005-06 working in the office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama as a foreign policy fellow, where she was credited with sparking off and directing Obama’s interest in the Darfur conflict. She has also been involved with efforts to increase media attention about the Darfur conflict. In 2006, she contributed to Screamers, a movie telling about Darfur, Armenian and other genocides of 20-21st centuries.
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March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Refuse vaccines, …
Refuse vaccines, they have toxic adjuvants like formaldehyde, MSG, Thimerosal(murcury), aluminum phosphate and other nasties. The World Homicide Organization is going to force nations of the world to vaccinate their populations in a couple months most likely, look for a propaganda campaign that will pressure you to get a “swine flu”(bioweapon) vaccine soon.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
This BS. Talk is …
This BS. Talk is fantasy, stay tuned when Israel bombs Iran in a summer near you
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Obama picked …
Obama picked Clinton for SoS! Ha! “Change” you can believe in.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Couldn’t make it …
Couldn’t make it any clearer really, all you have to do is read and think…can’t do it? I’ll help ya out then…if we talk to a potential “enemy” and they just won’t concede their Nuke program or such as that? Is there a line in the sand? You for some reason won’t answer this question either because you have no answer, or because you don’t like the answer…read your HISTORY books before trying to talk to adults about foreign policy, educate yourself before debate!
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I don’t think …
I don’t think you’re really approaching this discussion from the same basis of reality as myself, and I don’t think you actually understand the political terms you use. You haven’t answered any points raised nor do you raise any new ones, so a discussion is somewhat fruitless.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Furthermore, You …
Furthermore, You say I sound fundamentalist Muslim…you sound like a Fundamentalist Marxist. But go ahead your right, I mean the USSR, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, most of Europe, if you just keep trying I’m sure ONE of these times, a centralized Nanny state will work…LOL The funny thing with Socialists is you think the world is like the U.S. television show “Home Improvement”, but in reality it’s more like “Married With Children”
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
There are many …
There are many problems in the world, and changing America to socialism is not the answer, Last I heard it was the United States of America, not the United States of the World, and a centralized world government is NOT the answer to the world’s problems. As long as there are humanbeing’s their will ALWAYS be conflict, and greed sorry just the truth…
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I think it would be …
I think it would be fair to say that firstly, US foreign policy affects all of us. Secondly, the majority of the problems you point to with regard to Ireland refer to Northern Ireland rather than the Republic of Ireland and are now within a democratic framework. Finally, you sound more like a fundamentalist muslim than you realise in your rejection of the methods of finding a solution.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Well, I have never …
Well, I have never read anything written by Nancy Pelosi. All I know is that todays republicans love to shoot their guns and think that diplomacy is for pussies. Seriously, OBAMA is not afraid to talk to enemies like many of you. If we distance ourselves more and more from harsh dictators we are making the world a much more unsafe place. Imagine if we didn’t talk to Nikita Khrushchev during the cuban missle crisis. Jesus, if bush were president back then we all wouldn’t be alive.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
war loving?
wow …
war loving?
wow sounds like another Line out of the Nancy Pelosi Scam Book
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Your from IRELAND.. …
Your from IRELAND…your opinion means nothing to American Foreign policy, you have alot more to concern yourself with your own national problems (i.e. IRA, Catholic Protestant violence, anti-anglo dogma)
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Wow, another ” …
Wow, another “globalist” wanting a “New World Order” and “CHANGE” to socialism. Tell me…what would you suggest the next course of action be, if we talk to a potential “enemy” and they just won’t concede their Nuke program or such as that? Is there a line in the sand?
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
The idea of …
The idea of speaking to those who may not agree with America, is that of a grown up, rather than someone fixed on the idea of National Interest. We need to work our policies in a new way to ensure that the Four Freedoms have a chance to exist. Here’s hoping that Obama makes it to the White House for all of us.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Jimmy Carter is a …
Jimmy Carter is a very intelligent and good man. Nobel Peace winner, he deserves a humanitarian price. Yet he is still the worst president in recorded history. Obama’s foreign policy regarding rougue nations has local community traits. He thinks he can reform Ahmedinejad like a street punk. Even rehab programs require preconditions to work. Radical Islamists endoctrinate people to die killing. Preparation is bogus. What does it mean? Verification’s much better, but they won’t have it anyway.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Well Hillary ( …
Well Hillary (monster – not), McCain (war loving repub – no) and Obama (dope – oh yeah) is all just name calling. But I’ve seen Samantha in other videos and read some other stuff and I am really impressed by her. I also think she is extremely sincere and a very nice person on top of that. Just don’t agree with all of her politics. She has worked hard and is informed on some foreign issues no doubt about that.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Ahhh, Samantha …
Ahhh, Samantha power is a world renound human rights activist and has written pulitzer prize winners. Have you? Obama is the best candidate out there. The only two other canditates are McCain (war-loving republican) and Hillary (”a monster”)
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I think it is …
I think it is insane to think sitting down with Ahmedinejad so that,if talks break down one can then go to the world (UN?) with your case against him. This woman and Obama must think the Iranians are as stupid as they are. Talking fast does not mean you are intellligent. Obama is actually a dope
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I think she is an …
I think she is an incredibly intelligent and articulate woman. Like Obama, she has an international point of view. She shouldn’t have been asked to leave the campaign: Hillary is a monster.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Ms. Power is …
Ms. Power is vindicated by the evident truthfulness of her assertion that candidate Clinton is a monster.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
good job.
good job.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
I couldn’t have …
I couldn’t have said it better myself. This lady has political
instincts, and should be a future Secretary of State. I’ve never
seen her before, but I gave her 5*.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Obama has no chance …
Obama has no chance. Hillary will steal it and blacks will stay home allowing a McCain win. That’s good for the country. We’re not ready for a black yet or a woman. Hillary isn’t a woman anyhow. She’s a monster. And who wants a President wanting to negotiate with AQ or Iran or Syria. Certainly not me or the jews or Israel. He’s a nice guy who needs experience. Come back when you’ve learned something other than giving great speeches.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Obama and Clinton …
Obama and Clinton are essentially both Neo-cons. Facts prove each is strung about, like a puppet, by self-serving interest groups. Neither has demonstrated any capacity for leadership. Each is as maleable as Bush was.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Feel, feelings.
Feel, feelings.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
How such a moron …
How such a moron gets to such a high position is… depressing.