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Obama Senior Policy Advisor Samantha Power stumps in SC

By Alex Baker, SC Obama Staff - Dec 14th, 2007 at 5:40 pm EST

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Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, a senior policy advisor to Senator Obama, held a series of foreign policy discussions across South Carolina yesterday and today.

Ms. Power spoke at the University of South Carolina's Law School yesterday about the Rwandan genocide and the crisis in Darfur and the Sudan. In particular, she discussed how the anniversary of the Rwandan genocide might help people remember how we could attack atrocities differently with a new generation of activists.

We're already seeing the power of those activists today, Power said. Implemented in large part by groups, such as S.T.A.N.D., dedicated to taking action against the crimes in Darfur, a new grading program is being implemented that holds US policy-makers accountable for the atrocities that occure in Sub-Saharan Africa under their watch and shows the real cost of not supporting peace efforts.

The [Darfur] movement has had a profound effect.

Just the same, Power noted, there is still a great deal of work to be done, especially concerning how our own government impacts the situation in Darfur.

Despite speaking sincerely about its desire to bring an end to the "campaign of atrocities" in the Sudan, failures in leadership throughout the Bush administration has prevented the United States from directly dealing with the crisis in Darfur.

Chief among these failures has been the administration's execution of a needless war in Iraq which, Power said, has "created a very vivid picture of how foreign interventions can be, how dangerous and deadly the are" that has ultimately limited our ability to respond to legitimate crisis around the world.

Our next President, Power said, must have the good judgment, like Barack Obama, to avoid traps like Iraq, so the United States can fully respond to the real human atrocities that continue to plague the globe.

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