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BelmontClub: Fisking - Malloch Brown's Message to America
The controversy over UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown's criticism of ... what? US policies? The US? The American people? should begin with a verbatim rendering of Brown's words themselves. US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has called these remarks "a very, very grave mistake". Those remarks were delivered at a conference sponsored by the Security and Peace Initiative, a joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. The complete roster of speakers as given in the program is listed below. 1. Madeleine Albright, Principal, The Albright Group; former U.S. Secretary of State 2. Mark Malloch Brown, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General 3. Introduced by Jeffrey Laurenti, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation Download 4. Jim Leach,J U.S. Congressman from Iowa 5. JRichard C. Leone,J President, The Century Foundation 6. JJohn Podesta, President, Center for American Progress and Dr. Evil himself: 7. JGeorge Soros, Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute The verbatim remarks are themselves to be found in this PDF file, but for purposes of analysis I will present these remarks in two long table columns because the length of the speech makes it necessary to focus on the passages which are controversial. Mr. Brown's remarks are on the left. My commentary is on the right. [..] Go to link for the analysis. Posted by: 3dc 2006-06-08 |
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