Foreign Policy In Focus/Institute for Policy Studies,
December 17, 2012, By Stephen Zunes.
The mainstream media was too willing to focus on spurious criticisms of Susan Rice from the right while ignoring legitimate criticisms from the left. U.S. UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s announcement she would withdraw her name from consideration to be the next Secretary of State is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it marks yet another example of the Obama administration’s failure to defend its appointees [and] On the other hand, Rice’s lack of support for international humanitarian law and her willingness to state demonstrable falsehoods…