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Posted by BurtWorm in General Discussion
Wed Oct 28th 2009, 04:52 PM
Steve Clemons of the Washington Note was keeping track of this vote in the UN today. The US and co. lost:


http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/... /

The U.S. lost a whopping vote at the United Nations on bringing rationality back to America's Latin America portfolio and finally ending the last refuge of the Cold War.

187 nations voted against the United States. Israel and Palau voted with the U.S. Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained.

Looks like America is the isolated party here.

President Obama needs to turn this around.


An earlier post explained the absurd position the US finds itself in:

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/... /


CUBA United Nations Vote Today: US Should Abstain


Increasing numbers of national security leaders of the likes of Brent Scowcroft and George Shultz have said that the US embargo of Cuba makes no sense and harms American interests.

Republican Congressman Jeff Flake -- the hunky Arizona Congressman who recently spent five days alone on a remote Pacific island -- has reminded Americans that it is COMMUNIST governments that are supposed to get a kick out of restricting the movements of its people -- not DEMOCRATIC governments. Congressman Bill Delahunt has been leading in the House along with Byron Dorgan in the US Senate in calling for an end to all travel restrictions on Americans.

President Obama himself is a believer in people to people exchange -- and that opportunities arise from engagement -- not from isolation.

And yet, the United States today is going to vote in the United Nations against a measure condemning the US embargo of Cuba....


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