Samantha Power has been confirmed as the new American ambassador to the United Nations after an 87-10 vote in the US Senate.
US President Barack Obama (L) listens as former aide Samantha Power (R) speaks after he nominated her as US Ambassador to the United Nations Photo: Getty Images
By Raf Sanchez, Washington
11:27PM BST 01 Aug 2013
The former journalist and human rights advocate will take up the post in New York as the West struggles to formulate a response to the ongoing civil war in Syria, which is estimated to have claimed more than 100,000 lives.
Ms Power, 42, won support from both Democrats and Republicans for her work documenting successive American presidents' reluctance to intervene in genocidal conflicts in countries like Iraq, Rwanda and Bosnia.
However, her nomination was opposed by an increasingly strident group of Republican isolationist senators, including Senator Rand Paul and Senator Ted Cruz.
Mr Paul this week became engaged in an increasingly vitriolic war of words with national security hawks in his own party, including New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
Mr Christie called the senator's "strain of libertarianism" on national security "a very dangerous thought", while Mr Paul said the governor was hiding behind "the cloak of 9/11 victims".
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Both men are expected to run for president in 2016 and the question of how to define a conservative foreign policy looks set to be one of the race's major questions.
Senator Marco Rubio, another potential presidential contender, joined with nine other Republicans in voting against Ms Power.
He had earlier questioned her over a 2003 article in which she urged a "historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored, or permitted by the United States".
In a statement, President Barack Obama praised Ms Power, who served as an aide to him in the Senate and then the White House, as "one of our country’s leading foreign policy thinkers".
"As a long-time champion of human rights and dignity, she will be a fierce advocate for universal rights, fundamental freedoms and US national interests," Mr Obama added.
Miss Power said Syrian president Bashar al-Assad had created a "new playbook for brutality" with his use of chemical weapons and called the UN Security Council's refusal to condemn his actions as "a disgrace that history would judge harshly".
However, she was careful not to step beyond parameters set by the White House, which has so far refused to commit to any US armed intervention in Syria.
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