Nikki Haley sortira-t-elle indemne de l'administration Trump?

Il y a déjà quelques années que je m'intéresse au parcours de la républicaine Nikki Haley. Elle possède de nombreux atouts et pourrait bien être éventuellement une candidate forte dans une course présidentielle. En acceptent de servir dans l'administration Trump elle gagnait en expérience sur la scène internationale, une rare lacune, mais elle risquait aussi d'être associée au côté le plus sombre de l'actuel président. Alors qu'il ne lui reste plus que quelques semaines avant de terminer son mandat, sa réputation semble intacte.

"A 46-year-old, exceedingly popular Republican politician, Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants and a former South Carolina governor who is often discussed as a potential presidential candidate. Her reflection on her tenure at the UN, and the moral calling she felt underpinned it, was a vivid reminder that the president’s America First vision isn’t necessarily the settled future of the Grand Old Party. It was also an object lesson in how Haley, perhaps more skillfully than any other top administration official, has navigated major differences with Trump while cultivating common ground. And she’s done it representing him at an organization he once denounced as no friend to the United States.

“The most dangerous thing we can ever do is show a blind eye to any sort of human-rights violations,” Haley told me, arguing that promoting American values overseas is in the core interest of the United States. “Because if [the violation] threatens people, it threatens the world.”

In her first public comments on the Khashoggi killing, for example, she rejected the idea that the apparent state-sponsored murder of the journalist by Saudi Arabia, a longtime ally, placed the United States in the binary position of having to choose between its interests and its values—as the president has suggested in insisting that any U.S. response to the Khashoggi case must not disrupt an alliance that is critical to American economic and security interests. Employing remarkably forceful language for a hardliner on Iran, she maintained that Washington could simultaneously consider Saudi Arabia its “complete partner when it comes to fighting Iran” and convey the message that “we're not going to continue to be your partners if you continue to use thuggish behavior.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/nikki-haley-un-khashoggi-north-korea-diplomacy/577558/