President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for the post of ambassador to the United Nations is known as an advocate for stronger action to prevent genocide. Susan E. Rice was Bill Clinton’s assistant secretary of state for Africa and visited Rwanda just after the genocide there.
Today’s New York Times quotes from an Atlantic piece that quoted her in 2001:
“I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required,” she told The Atlantic Monthly in 2001. She eventually became a sharp critic of the Bush administration’s handling of the Darfur killings and last year testified before Congress on behalf of an American-led bombing campaign or naval blockade to force a recalcitrant Sudanese government to stop the slaughter.
AND she likes to play basketball…