Dec. 9, 2012

Susan Rice and Africa’s Despots: An unsettling sympathy for Africa’s despots

Salem Solomon

ON Sept. 2, Ambassador Susan E. Rice delivered a eulogy for a man she called “a true friend to me.” Before thousands of mourners and more than 20 African heads of state in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ms. Rice, the United States’ representative to the United Nations, lauded the country’s late prime minister, Meles Zenawi. She called him “brilliant” —... Read more »

Dec. 1, 2012

The Case Against Susan Rice: Enamored with Africa’s Dictatorships

Salem Solomon

As the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Susan Rice read a eulogy she prepared on the occasion of the death of Meles Zenawi, the prime minister of Ethiopia, she called him a “tough, unsentimental and sometimes unyielding,” leader.