Cliche-based foreign policy

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee kicked up a political storm this week. Tuesday Ros-Lehtinen introduced the United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act. If passed into law it would place stringent restrictions on US funding of the UN's budget.

If Ros-Lehtinen's act is passed into law, the UN will have two years to enact budgetary reforms that would render a minimum of 80 percent of its budget financing voluntary. If the UN does not make the required reforms, the US government will be enjoined to withhold fifty percent of its non-voluntary UN budget allocations.

Beyond this overarching demand for UN budgetary reform, the act contains several specific actions that are directed against UN institutions that advance anti-American and anti-Israel agendas.

Ros-Lehtinen's bill defunds all UN activities related to the libelous Goldstone Report, and the anti-Semitic Durban process. It vastly curtails and conditions US funding of UNRWA, the Palestinian refugee agency permeated by members of terrorist organizations.

The bill would cut off US funding to any UN agency or organization that upgrades the Palestinian mission to the UN in any way in the aftermath of a UN General Assembly vote in favor of such an upgrade in representation.

Ros-Lehtinen's bill is expected to be blocked in the Democrat-controlled Senate before Obama has the opportunity to veto it. This is a pity not simply because the bill would advance US interests and the cause of freedom. It is a pity because it shows that the foreign policy debate in the US is now a fight between those who trust facts and those who trust cliches.

There is no party affiliation so I thought a democrat but a dem would not chair a committee in the republican house and there is no party affiliation on her website.

Shall I assume RINO?

Thanks Former Fetus.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...introduced the United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act. If passed into law... the UN will have two years to enact budgetary reforms that would render a minimum of 80 percent of its budget financing voluntary. If the UN does not make the required reforms, the US government will be enjoined to withhold fifty percent of its non-voluntary UN budget allocations... the act contains several specific actions that are directed against UN institutions that advance anti-American and anti-Israel agendas... defunds all UN activities related to the libelous Goldstone Report, and the anti-Semitic Durban process. It vastly curtails and conditions US funding of UNRWA... would cut off US funding to any UN agency or organization that upgrades the Palestinian mission to the UN in any way in the aftermath of a UN General Assembly vote in favor of such an upgrade in representation.

Perfect timing!

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