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   Being soft on African dictators, pondering the electoral   
   implications of calling genocide genocide, and giving Richard   
   Holbrooke the finger   
      
   One: In April 1994, Susan Rice was a rising star on the U.S.   
   National Security Council who worked under Richard Clarke. That   
   year, attention turned to a bloody slaughter in Rwanda; the U.S.   
   officials could see that it was genocide, but officially   
   labeling the massacres genocide would mean that the U.S. would   
   be obligated to act under the terms of the 1948 Genocide   
   Convention. Rice raised other concerns as well:   
      
   At an interagency teleconference in late April, she stunned a   
   few of the officials present when she asked, “If we use the word   
   ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the   
   effect on the November [congressional] election?” Lieutenant   
   Colonel Tony Marley remembers the incredulity of his colleagues   
   at the State Department. “We could believe that people would   
   wonder that,” he says, “but not that they would actually voice   
   it.” Rice does not recall the incident but concedes, “If I said   
   it, it was completely inappropriate, as well as irrelevant.”   
      
   That account comes from an article written by Samantha Power, a   
   former foreign-policy adviser to the Obama campaign, whom the   
   president then appointed to the National Security Council staff.   
   Power also served as a special assistant to the president on   
   human rights.   
      
   Two: After leaving the Clinton administration, Rice became   
   managing director at Intellibridge, a strategic-analysis firm in   
   Washington, D.C. One of her clients was Paul Kagame, the   
   president of Rwanda.   
      
   Nearly 20 years after the Rwandan genocide, Rice would again be   
   in an official position shaping U.S. policy on Africa, and again   
   faced criticism she had softened the U.S. response to mass   
   killings in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kagame’s   
   support of violent rebel forces.   
      
   Specifically, these critics — who include officials of human   
   rights organizations and United Nations diplomats — say the   
   administration has not put enough pressure on Rwanda’s   
   president, Paul Kagame, to end his support for the rebel   
   movement whose recent capture of the strategic city of Goma in   
   Congo set off a national crisis in a country that has already   
   lost more than three million people in more than a decade of   
   fighting. Rwanda’s support is seen as vital to the rebel group,   
   known as M23.   
      
   But according to rights organizations and diplomats at the   
   United Nations, Ms. Rice has been at the forefront of trying to   
   shield the Rwandan government, and Mr. Kagame in particular,   
   from international censure, even as several United Nations   
   reports have laid the blame for the violence in Congo at Mr.   
   Kagame’s door.   
      
   Aides to Ms. Rice acknowledge that she is close to Mr. Kagame   
   and that Mr. Kagame’s government was her client when she worked   
   at Intellibridge, a strategic analysis firm in Washington.   
      
   In 2012, Eritrean-American journalist Salem Solomon wrote in the   
   New York Times that “during her career, [Rice] has shown a   
   surprising and unsettling sympathy for Africa’s despots.”   
      
   Three: In 1998, as assistant secretary of state for African   
   affairs, Rice played a key role coordinating President Clinton’s   
   twelve-day trip to Africa. Jesse Jackson also traveled with the   
   president, and the two had an awkward exchange during one joint   
   appearance before reporters, according to the New York Times:   
      
   Mr. Jackson also outlined an unusually Afrocentric view of   
   American history, arguing that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King   
   Jr. had more to do with modern democracy than Thomas Jefferson.   
   He asserted that the American economy was built by slaves who   
   were not paid and blacks who were underpaid, making the United   
   States the real debtor nation rather than the countries of   
   Africa.   
      
   Susan Rice, the Assistant Secretary of State for African   
   Affairs, sat glowering through much of Mr. Jackson’s briefing.   
   When her turn came she commented, “As an African-American, I   
   would like to say that I think slavery is largely irrelevant to   
   what we are about here.”   
      
   Four: Later in 1998, Rice became one of the Clinton   
   administration’s preeminent defenders of the airstrike against   
   the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan.   
      
   The U.S. Navy launched 13 Tomahawk cruise missiles early in the   
   evening of August 20, destroying the factory. By 2005, officials   
   had concluded “that there was no proof that the plant had been   
   manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by   
   the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a   
      
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