Topic: America's top UN diplomat has high praise for 'Hanoi Jane'

[oldcoastie6468]

America's top UN diplomat has high praise for 'Hanoi Jane'
Published November 07, 2013FoxNews.com

New U.S. ambassador to the UN Samantha Power didn't waste her diplomatic skills on Vietnam veterans at a New York speech, praising actress Jane Fonda for "being outspoken on behalf" of her convictions.

Power, 43, was speaking at the United Nations Association of the USA 2013 Global Leadership Awards in New York Wednesday, where honorees included Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who survived being shot in the head by Taliban thugs and is now an education advocate for girls.

“Hi everybody,” Power said, according to a transcript. “You know life has changed when you’re hanging out with Jane Fonda backstage. There is no greater embodiment of being outspoken on behalf of what you believe in — and being 'all in' in every way — than Jane Fonda. And it’s a huge honor just to even briefly have shared the stage with her.”

But Vietnam veterans have long held a less charitable view of the Oscar-winning actress, who in her younger days took her anti-war activism to North Vietnam, where she posed with Viet Cong soldiers at a missile battery and earned the derisive nickname "Hanoi Jane." The now-75-year-old actress has since apologized for what she told Oprah Winfrey was an "unforgivable mistake" made in 1972. Fonda told Winfrey she was taken to a North Vietnam military site during the last day of her visit, despite her objections.

Damned slut.   

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/07/america-top-un-diplomat-has-high-praise-for-hanoi-jane/

[Libertas]

Damned slut.

Which one?

I'd say both!

 

[oldcoastie6468]

Damned slut.

Which one?

I'd say both!

 

I'd say you're right!

[IronDioPriest]

Re; Samantha Power: This regime truly has populated every level of government with anti-American communist radicals.

If we ever come out of this dark time, we're going to have to ensure that such people are never again permitted near the levers of power. I have no faith that the resolve necessary to extinguish the ability of Marxists and Maoists to participate in government will exist, even after the coming tribulation that appears inevitable.

[Glock32]

It's just like with Islam. Islam should be outlawed in this country. Does the notion of a "free country" include the "freedom" to transform it into something decidedly unfree?

A society must have First Principles, and it must codify and institutionalize them. There should be no official way to dismantle First Principles. If people want to dismantle First Principles, then they must understand the only way they will do so is through insurrection and that they will be rightly put down for trying it.

Yeah, it sounds contradictory, but clearly we need better safeguards against the fact that there's always going to be charlatans who seek power by bribing some with the property of others.