Samantha Power Bashes Isolationism in NYC School Visits

By Sangwon Yoon Jun 10, 2014 12:00 AM ET

Samantha Power is taking a 40-minute break. Her legs are outstretched, and her shoulders are relaxed. She smiles and doesn’t parse her words for political correctness. She is recharging.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who has called herself a “humanitarian hawk” and “the genocide chick,” is not at a spa. She’s at a high school auditorium in Brooklyn.

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Earnest as always, she meant what she said. At a time when fewer and fewer Americans support U.S. engagement in overseas conflicts, it’s a treat for the former war correspondent and Harvard University human-rights professor to promote her enthusiasm for a larger world view to young New Yorkers whose horizons may not lie far beyond their own boroughs.

“There is an isolationist current in this country that has existed forever, but that has particular traction now in some circles, by virtue of the resources expended over the last year, and of course the length of the wars and the men and women who didn’t come home from the wars,” Power said afterward. “But we need to make the case for internationalism.”

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