WSJ: Nauert Gives Hope to Journalists

Nauert Gives Hope to Journalists
Wall Street Journal
Dovid Efune
December 12, 2018
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"Ms. Nauert’s two decades in journalism may help her understand the practical consequences of the U.N.’s many failures and rare successes. In 2009, as war raged, she spent weeks in Sudan, visiting refugee camps in Darfur and interviewing local leaders, including Ali Osman Taha, then a Sudanese vice president. She covered Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 from Jordan and Iraq. She reported on the first free elections in Iraq and on the subsequent U.S. rebuilding efforts in the region. She also extensively reported on the aftermath of 9/11 in New York and on Islamist terror groups in the Netherlands.

"For the past two years, Ms. Nauert has worked in the upper echelons of the State Department. Week after week she’s stood before leading correspondents from international media outlets and articulated complex policies. She also has taken fact-finding trips to Bangladesh, Myanmar and Israel.
 
"Over the past seven months she has served as the fourth-highest official at State and has traveled the globe with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The list of her recent overseas destinations includes at least 20 countries on four continents. She participated in three separate trips to North Korea, high-level NATO meetings and the Group of 20 summit.
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"Like Ms. Nauert, Ms. Power started her career as a journalist. It would be hard to make the case that when Ms. Power was confirmed by the Senate she had any more diplomatic, negotiating, or policy-making experience than Ms. Nauert has today. While Ms. Power’s appointment did face opposition, it came in the form of objections to her stated policy prescriptions. The Senate nonetheless confirmed her nomination, 87-10.
 
"Ms. Nauert deserves the same benefit of the doubt. She has shown herself to be a dedicated and articulate patriot. Senators who confirm her should expect to look back favorably at their decision once they see her at work at the U.N."
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