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Thread #135830   Message #3099712
Posted By: GUEST,lively
21-Feb-11 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mr Obama veto's peace policy
Subject: RE: BS: Mr Obama veto's peace policy
i believe the vote was 14 to 1 in favour of the resolution. I have read a number of critical comments from various sources, including foriegn papers in english, some which have characterised the us as "torpedoing" the unsc resolution. Whatever the attitude of fellow western nations - privately or publicly - it can only inflame further popular hatred of us 'interventions' in the middle-east at a time one would imagine it to be singularly unwise to do so. I suspect obama isn't getting a great deal of sleep right now. But then again, he won't be alone there. Its an amazing time. And considering the major upheavels currently occuring I somehow doubt this resolution will make too much difference to the shape of things to come in the long term in any event, bar adding a bit of extra fuel to the fire.