Posted on 11/02/2017 7:03:37 AM PDT by mandaladon
Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted the United Nations Wednesday in a defiant speech to the 193-member General Assembly before it adopted a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.
Haley called the long-standing debate “political theater.”
“Let’s be honest about what we really see going on here,” Haley said. “This assembly does not have the power to end the U.S. embargo. It is based in U.S. law, which only the United States Congress can change.”
The United States voted Wednesday against the U.N. resolution condemning the American trade embargo against Cuba after abstaining last year, during the administration of Barack Obama, for the first time in 25 years.
The vote served as just the latest sign of a renewed chill between Washington and Havana since a string of bizarre sonic attacks against American diplomats in Cuba. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump’s administration kicked nearly two-thirds of Cuba’s embassy personnel out of the United States after pulling many U.S. diplomats from the American embassy in Havana out of concern for their health and safety.
While the State Department has not accused Cuba of being behind the incidents, many Latin America experts and Cuban-American officials in government see no way that the government in Havana is not at least complicit. In any event, U.S. officials say Havana is responsible for the safety of foreign diplomats on its soil under the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations.
Haley said the United States is opposing the resolution in solidarity with the Cuban people “and in the hope that they will one day be free to choose their own destiny.”
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“No she di’int”
During Reagan's administration I seem to recall some Senator found a way for the US to withhold our annual tax to the UN. It worked for several years as I recall.
Can we revive him and begin withholding US contributions to the UN again?
Bump!
Thank you, Mrs Haley for telling those Marxist pukes what the rest of us have always known.
They’re not the boss of us. They never were, they never will be, and any person or political party who supports MAKING them so is a traitorous scumbag and should be dealt with as such.
She’s not a lawyer.
She’s the Governor that ordered it taken down from the statehouse grounds when that psycho nutter in a Gold’s Gym t-shirt killed those folks in Charleston, as if that had anything to do with it. I’m wondering why she didn’t legislate Gold’s Gym out of existence.
Excellent. She sounds like presidential material.
Maybe it’s cause I’m a Yankee bastard but I don’t like how worked up either side gets about that stupid flag, as if it matters whether it’s flying or not. Flag/no flag, the tax rate is the same.
People can fly it on their lawn if they like associating themselves with failure so much, they can also put a pic of Jimmy Carter on their wall.
If someone has the balls to send Hillary to prison. They will waltz into the wh
It is patently obvious that the UN is not the boss of the US. Who is the boss of the UN? Globalists, here and elsewhere. Haley’s promotion of Obama’s foreign policy of interventionism puts her at odds with candidate Trump. I would fire her in a NY minute, defund the organization, and evict them from the US.
I tended to be indifferent on the issue ordinarily, BUT it was politicizing what was a deranged individual’s actions that had nothing to do with a flag and that spurred the ISIS-like destruction of history ever since. I’d have left the issue of keeping or removing the flag up to the voters, nothing more and nothing less.
Some people don’t really understand that flying a Confederate flag doesn’t necessarily mean support of the Confederacy itself, but for being a “rebel”, as in against the establishment. “The Dukes of Hazzard” were a premier example of that, it wasn’t about bringing back the Confederate government, it was about rebelling against the corrupt people in power.
Symbols can mean different things to different people
To a southern patriot it might mean “freedom”.
To a D-bag like Kid Rock “Rebellion against the establishment” or some such
To most Black people, the flag of the Army that fought for the slave owners.
To me, a piece of cloth.
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