As Twitchy has reported in the past, the Obama administration is quite fond of using social media as a vehicle to express its outrage at America’s enemies. And their social-media war continues…
Ambassador Samantha Power tweeted out these excerpts earlier today from the latest UN’s report detailing the horrific atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people, but we’re not sure if the reaction from Tweeters was what she expected.
First up, here are Power’s tweets:
New @UN report, based on accounts of 300+ Yezidis & Syrians, on #ISIL's horrors, including rape and ethnic cleaning: http://t.co/Yc4ghpZ1XK
— Samantha Power (@AmbPower44) November 16, 2014
An interviewee from Ar-Raqqah, Syria, in new @UN Commission of Inquiry report on ISIL's horrors: pic.twitter.com/iMgJdgq1TU
— Samantha Power (@AmbPower44) November 16, 2014
Witness of displayed body of an ISIL victim in Syria, via new @UN Commission of Inquiry report on ISIL's horrors: pic.twitter.com/nm39GPVNIM
— Samantha Power (@AmbPower44) November 16, 2014
An interviewee in Syria on Ramadan under ISIL, via new @UN Commission of Inquiry report on ISIL's horrors: pic.twitter.com/JX2kERkWuy
— Samantha Power (@AmbPower44) November 16, 2014
Witness to an execution of a Kurdish fighter in Syria, via new @UN Commission of Inquiry report on ISIL's horrors: pic.twitter.com/ZHsQBWpz8v
— Samantha Power (@AmbPower44) November 16, 2014
Now, the reaction:
@AmbassadorPower @UN You're also responsible for what happened to this poor girl.Don't you feel guilty for 3 yr denying jihadists existence
— Hanan Shamoun (@HananShamounNL) November 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/FrankLynchBkln/status/534108597878128641
https://twitter.com/FrankLynchBkln/status/534108309163229184
https://twitter.com/Petrovich81/status/534047723759366144
@Petrovich81 @ChristophHeer52 @AmbassadorPower @UN No one as its business as usual by any means necessary
— Peter Wolf™ (@PeterWolfffff) November 17, 2014
@AmbassadorPower @UN And yet you do nothing-go take selfies with celebs-you're Bette at that.
— Mysterion3000 (@Mysterion3000) November 16, 2014
@AmbassadorPower @UN Animals…What It The Toothless/Impotent UN Going To Do About It??? Most Probably Nothing!!!!
— Rae Ring (@rae_ring) November 16, 2014
@AmbassadorPower @UN Reports Do Nothing.This Is A Case For Bullets, Bombs & Cruise Missiles!!! You Can't Negotiate W Religious Extremist!!
— Rae Ring (@rae_ring) November 16, 2014
@AmbassadorPower @UN I'm convinced these atrocities are the result of the weakest and least credible American president since Wilson.
— War and Peace (@cynthharrington) November 16, 2014
"@brehology: @AmbassadorPower #Assyrians lost 3/4ths of population during Ottoman genocide, won't survive without UNSC backed SafeZone”"
— Assyrian ?⚪️? (@ashooretah) November 17, 2014
Did she not think people would link these atrocities to the president’s feckless foreign policy in the region?
And yes, this UN report is bad, but so have all the previous UN reports on ISIL:
UN report on Iraq fingers ISIL for "the direct, deliberate targeting of civilians" http://t.co/QWIyCHnkIA
— Ned Parker (@nedmparker1) July 18, 2014
UN report on mass atrocities by ISIL in Syria (PDF) http://t.co/IQoaeTf7EY
— Paul Sedra (@sedgate) August 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/trtenglishcom/status/517655729663406081
At some point, the Obama administration has to realize that tweeting out outrage at ISIL is not the same as fighting ISIL.
Correction:
The initial version of this post incorrectly referred to Amb. Samantha Power as “Susan Power.” We regret the error.
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