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| White House puts UN on notice |
| 2002-08-02 |
Kathy Kinsley points to this jaw-dropper:In a defining stroke of statecraft, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte has served notice to the United Nations that its years of treating Israel as a whipping boy are over. He and President Bush will brook no nonsense from the international community. Henceforth, the ambassador told Security Council members, Washington will use its veto power to kill any Middle East resolutions that fail to clearly and fully denounce Palestinian terrorism. To survive, any such resolution must include explicit condemnations - by name - of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Yasser Arafat-linked Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, all of which practice and exult in the massacre of Jews.Unless I'm mistaken, that's a stand on principle. Every once in awhile I get to thinking the Bush team has forgotten its way, that they've become wimpy, or too wrapped in domestic in-fighting with Daschle/Gephardt/Whomever. Then they come up with something like this and make me proud of them again. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 I blogged this,too, Fred, because I thought it was so wonderful and important (actually I saw it at Andrew Sullivan's!). I hope the Bush Administration means it. We (the U.S.) and Israel have heard just about enough out of the U.N., don't ya think? We're never gonna be able to conduct this War on Islamists (even outside the ICC) if they're screaming "war crime" every time they're taken to task. |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2002-08-02 15:35:53 |
| #1 Bush reminds me of a baseball player that I once knew. He always had get two strikes before he hit the ball. Watching him go to bar was infuriating, but he usually came through. |
| Posted by: Ray 2002-08-02 15:22:36 |