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<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/09/09/220586231/u-s-ambassador-susan-rice-makes-case-for-strikes-on-syria" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/2013/09/09/220586231/u-s-ambassador-susan-rice-makes-case-for-strikes-on-syria</a><br><br>(Sarcasm Alert)<br><br>Steve Inskeep was incredibly rude this morning to Samantha Power, the new <br>American ambassador to the United Nations. He actually had the gall to<br>ask her flat out: "Would an American strike on Syria be legal?" <br><br>Of course since Ms. Power has a degree from Harvard Law she put him in his <br>place immediately with a long and heartfelt response that did not answer his <br>silly question. <br><br>But Mr. Inskeep can not take a hint, showing his unfitness for his post as a<br>journalist. He insisted "You're saying that something needs to be done and <br>it is time to go
outside the legal system, outside the legal framework. You <br>believe it is
right to do something that is just simply not legal."<br><br>And of course Ms. Powers did not stoop to his level and address the irrelevant<br>question of legality. No stinking badges needed! <br><br>Ms. Power is married to Cass Sunstein, a Constitutional scholar and (until a <br>year ago) Obama's Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory <br>Affairs, who achieved some notoriety when he very sensibly suggested that the <br>government should combat conspiracy theorists by employing corps of internet <br>posters to "enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space
groups <br>and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by
raising doubts <br>about their factual premises, causal logic or
implications for political action."<br> </div>
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