Posted on 01/05/2018 10:26:14 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Calling out the tyrants and dictators who abuse their people while threatening international peace and security
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued some stark warnings during a press briefing she held at UN headquarters on January 2nd. Her bluntness and moral clarity are welcome changes from the doublespeak and moral relativism we heard so often from her Obama-era predecessors, Susan Rice and Samantha Power.
Demonstrating U.S. support for the Iranian people in their struggle against the regime, for example, Ambassador Haley told reporters that she intended to call for emergency meetings of the UN Security Council and Human Rights Council to address the Iranian people’s plight. “The U.N. must speak out,” Ambassador Haley said. “We must not be silent. The people of Iran are crying out for freedom. All freedom-loving people must stand with their cause. The international community made the mistake of failing to do that in 2009. We must not make that mistake again.”
“Moral clarity” is classic neocon language. The idea is to try to get people into a witch hunt mindset where opposition to war is seen as immorally “protecting dictators.” Therefore, those who oppose war are wicked and effectively guilty of the crimes of foreign dictators.
This precisely identical to Iraq war propaganda from 2002.
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