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White House puts UN on notice
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 2002-08-02
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=6102