She has President Obama’s ear. To what end?

Source: www.newyorker.com

"Power wrote of Sergio Vieira de Mello, ‘He started out as a humanitarian,’ but, after years of contending with crises around the world, “he had become a diplomat and politician, comfortable weighing lesser evils.’ She called him a ‘Machiavellian idealist.’ She told me, ‘As time wears on, I find myself gravitating more and more to the G.S.D. people’—the ‘get shit done’ people, a term favored by Susan Rice. ‘We’re racing against the clock here to get as much done as we can. So when you run across people who know how to be bureaucratic samurais, or are especially persuasive in their diplomacy internationally, spend more time on those relationships, and on brainstorming with those individuals, to achieve a common purpose. Principles and positions only take you so far.’” 

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