Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Bashes U.N. and Susan Rice

With President Barack Obama nominating Samantha Power to serve as ambassador to the United Nation, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., the chairwoman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee and a leading Republican on foreign affairs, called for major reforms to the U.N.

The United Nations is an institution in need of serious reform, Ros-Lehtinen said on Friday, before taking a shot at Susan Rice who is going from the U.N. to serve as Obamas national security adviser. While at the U.N., Ambassador Rice was unable to institute positive changes to fix this broken system. She brought a more laissez-faire approach to a problem that needs someone willing to roll up her sleeves and make reform a priority.

The U.N. needs someone who can work to bring true reforms to that mismanaged institution, and I hope Samantha Power has the desire and the ability to recognize what corrective actions need to be taken, and will push back and fight harder against the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-United States agenda in that body, Ros-Lehtinen said.