Obama’s five errors in a United Nations speech
Obama’s five errors in a United Nations speech
27/9/2013 15:44
Range Press / Beirut
On the eve of the vote on the draft resolution, the Russian-American in the Security Council, which constitutes the framework for chemical disarmament Syrian recorded political circles in Washington group notes on a speech delivered by U.S. President Barack Obama before the General Assembly at the United Nations, and stopped at five fallacies in this word.
Five fallacies are the following:
The first error saying: “I did not have the Security Council any inclination whatsoever to intervene in Syria, not military threat seriously,” has been following the Michael Shank these words in the magazine “Ioas News & World Report”, saying: “I did not ask the United States permission from the Security Council using military force against Syria, as it did not discuss the Syrian crisis with him other than what happened in relation to Libya. ”
The second error is the claim Obama end a decade of wars with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, ending the coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan in the next year.
But that does not mean the end of the war actually. Perhaps the most accurate description is the beginning of a new decade of war, Violence reigns Iraq, and fighting continues in Yemen, Libya, Pakistan, Syria and Somalia.
The third error is the assertion that “the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons killed more than a thousand people.”
Here observers stops when two mistakes: first, the identity of the use of this weapon, as yet does not appear neutral third opinion (such as the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) based on the scientific evidence is unambiguous, determines the identity of the actor more assertive not accept الدحض.
The second relates to the number of victims, the figure cited by Obama is different from the estimates of the organization “Doctors Without Borders” which spoke of “more than 300″, and French estimates that talked about the more than 500 victims.
The fourth error in Libya, where Obama said: “Without international intervention to Libya was engulfed in a civil war today and in the blood.”
This say Shank response: “This statement is a cause for concern, because Libya is still mired in civil war and bloodshed, and put it did not become better after the invasion.”
He added Shank: “We Molina generously rebel groups disputing, and organizations opposition diverse (which were not consistent at all, which is not consistent now) and left Libya with prospects for stronger obtaining chaos and bloodshed, more than before, and today we repeat the same mistakes in Syria.”
Fifth error may not be the last, is Obama’s announcement that the United States “will not allow for the development and use of nuclear weapons, which may lead to a nuclear arms race,” and “these countries bear responsibility under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.” The problem in this announcement that the United States and a number of key allies such as Israel and India, pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction, and some of those allies do not comply with the provisions of the Treaty.
There is no dispute that President Obama needs to appoint a new person to write his speeches, the issue may be more complicated than that.
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