"U.S. president standing against his own country, making a mockery of his constitutional oath"North Korea and Syria Applaud, as Cuba Bullies America at the UN | The Rosett Report
By Claudia Rosett On October 28, 2015
Never mind that since last December President Obama has been falling all over himself to please and appease Cuba’s Castro regime. He has failed to come up with arguments compelling enough to persuade Congress to lift the embargo on Cuba. So, while pocketing Obama’s concessions, Havana has been complaining to the United Nations General Assembly that the U.S. embargo is still in place. OnTuesday, the General Assembly continued its annual tradition of approving a resolution [1] slamming the U.S., urging the tailoring of U.S. law to UN interests, and demanding that the U.S. embargo be lifted. As usual, the resolution passed with near total support, the tally this year being 191 in favor, 2 against — the two holdouts being the U.S. itself, plus Israel (which, as a loyal ally, voted with the U.S.).
Lest anyone think this is some clearcut case in which the UN collective is right, and the U.S. is wrong, let’s be clear on what this vote is really about. It is not actually about Cuba per se, or the embargo. Cuba is a tyranny that routinely violates the principles of the UN charter, without incurring protest by the eminences of the UN. And Cuba has had abundant opportunity for years to trade with most of the world. The real constraint on its economy is Castroite communism, not the leaky barrier of the U.S. trade embargo. In this long-running saga, the Castro regime is not the victim. It is the villain.
But the UN’s thug-heavy General Assembly is not, as a rule, much concerned with the realities of right and wrong, nor do most of its member states give a hoot for the human rights ideals enshrined — or should we say, entombed — in the UN charter. This vote is a chance to beat up the U.S.; an annual rite in which Cuba leads the mob. Among the countries celebrating the passage of the resolution were such stars of the UN firmament as North Korea, which in 2013 was caught red-handed smuggling from Cuba a huge stash of munitions, hidden under bags of sugar aboard the freighter Chong Chon Gang. In an explanation of the vote, as summarized by the UN, [2]
North Korea’s envoy shared with the eminences of the UN his government’s concern that the U.S. embargo on Cuba “was hampering the peaceful and stable development of the region.”
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Lest anyone think this is some clearcut case in which the UN collective is right, and the U.S. is wrong, let’s be clear on what this vote is really about. It is not actually about Cuba per se, or the embargo. Cuba is a tyranny that routinely violates the principles of the UN charter, without incurring protest by the eminences of the UN. And Cuba has had abundant opportunity for years to trade with most of the world. The real constraint on its economy is Castroite communism, not the leaky barrier of the U.S. trade embargo. In this long-running saga, the Castro regime is not the victim. It is the villain.
But the UN’s thug-heavy General Assembly is not, as a rule, much concerned with the realities of right and wrong, nor do most of its member states give a hoot for the human rights ideals enshrined — or should we say, entombed — in the UN charter. This vote is a chance to beat up the U.S.; an annual rite in which Cuba leads the mob. Among the countries celebrating the passage of the resolution were such stars of the UN firmament as North Korea, which in 2013 was caught red-handed smuggling from Cuba a huge stash of munitions, hidden under bags of sugar aboard the freighter Chong Chon Gang. In an explanation of the vote, as summarized by the UN, [2]
North Korea’s envoy shared with the eminences of the UN his government’s concern that the U.S. embargo on Cuba “was hampering the peaceful and stable development of the region.”
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