The disparity she found between how much we (the US) spend in foreign aid to certain countries and how often those countries’ interests are not aligned with ours is shocking (e.g., in 2017 we gave Pakistan more aid than only a handful of other countries, nearly $1 billion, yet they oppose us 76% of the time and harbor terrorists plotting to hurt us). In a book filled with example after example of the UN’s failures, there were two that boiled my blood. And I cheered Nikki on as she fought the good fight.
The atrocities she cites and which continue to take place throughout our world will anger and sadden you, a few of the stories made me physically ill, but they also made me ever more grateful to live in a land of freedom. She calmly and pointedly recounts her experiences, the ideals she fought for, all the while taking on both the Chinese and Russian ambassadors on the UN Security Council who, not surprisingly, were always on the other side of every initiative she undertook. This is as much a chronicle of a few years in Haley’s life-beginning with the Charleston shootings and chronicling her time as UN Ambassador-as it is a study in international policy and the shortcomings of the UN, the most galling of which is their continued dismissal and antagonism toward Israel, the only democracy in that part of the world. Nikki Haley takes on the UN and the good old boys, John Kelly and Rex Tillerson, with the same equanimity and fighting spirit and proves that this Southern woman is no wilting magnolia. Hell hath no fury like a woman wrongly portrayed. This book which is more highlights than a biography is incredibly well-written, obviously well-researched, and narrated so smoothly that it practically reads itself. One of the final chapters is given to her visit to South Sudan and the brutal conditions there that have been allowed to fester as literally millions have become refugees in their own country. And how the UN never gives a damn about human rights.
#Grit and grace free
Haley explains how she saw how the UN unfairly was used to bully Israel, how brutal dictators like Assad and Castro were given a free pass. Haley recounts how as she waited to take her ambassadorship Obama and Samantha Powers took the opportunity to betray our allies and to reward our enemies. Most of us are only familiar with Haley as the UN ambassador with the high heels who announced that the US was back and was going to stand with its friends, not its enemies. Her recounting if each of the nine victims and their funerals And she hated his the national media and race baiters seemed to want to use it to redivide our country. How growing up in South Carolina she understood that the shooter’s bitter Hate was the exception now, not the rule. One of Haley’s most poignant stories in this book is about the Charleston church shooting and how it ripped open wounds that were thought to have healed. Her own election and that if Tim Scott demonstrate that, with few spare exceptions, the world has changed. And she knows how amazingly far the South has come since she was a child. She grew up in a world divided, but one where she was an outsider who didn’t fit in to preconceived notions of racial division. Whatever fractures this country has, whatever divisions, Haley may be best positioned to bring us all together.
Nikki Haley will in all likelihood become the first woman President of the United States, not because of her gender, but because she is one of the most amazing people ever.
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