When the man does something right, I have no problem acknowledging the fact. So while the rest of the world will attend an U.N. conference against racism, the United States will join Canada, Israel, Germany and the Netherlands in not going. The reasons are anti-Semitic remarks put forth in conference documents.
The President is catching some heat over this though, some of them his close friends. Democrat Barbara Lee from California, the same who led the Black Caucus over to visit Cuba, is a bit miffed to say the least.
“This decision is inconsistent with the administration’s policy of engaging with those we agree with and those we disagree with,” she said. “By boycotting Durban, the U.S. is making it more difficult for it to play a leadership role on U.N. Human Rights Council as it states it plans to do. This is a missed opportunity, plain and simple.”
Maybe she forgets that the US pays for many of these councils and programs, and if we really want to make a statement, or up our involvement at a later date, that will not be a problem. Its the bigger picture, and whether the President and the White House feels regret over not going or not, it was the right thing to do. I believe there is a growing anti-Israeli/Jewish faction growing in the world today. Mostly because I think most in the world are afraid to do anything about Iran and their nuclear program, and they have been listening to Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric and rants.
We as a country have no greater friend in the Middle East than Israel, and if the US continues to follow the UN path of do nothing philosophy in respect to Iran’s nuclear growth, it could very well be Israel’s sword that cuts that cancer out of Tehran.