Are international organizations the keys to a healthier U.S. foreign policy?

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Oct. 28, 2009

It’s not a mystery that one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama Administration was to turn around the attitude of the State Department toward international organizations, and chiefly the United Nations. Once the object of scorn under President Bush, President Obama has promised to work within the UN and other international groups for a more multilateral approach to foreign policy, from climate change to Iran. Will the change in attitude pay dividends?

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Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

Florence Abbott
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It was shocking to hear Esther Brimmer, stuttering and stammering, denounce the Goldstone Report as 'imbalanced' given it has seemed to report accurately on the horribly imbalanced ('unproportional' as it has been called, again and again) destruction and direct gunning down of more than 1400 Gazans (including mothers standing waving white flags next to their children) at the beginning of this year. (Hamas having been responsible for the rocket-related
deaths if 13-14 Israels which the Gladstone
Report also denounces.)

Shocking too to have this woman putting out this perspective as an Assistant Secretary of State.

It is disappointing in the extreme to hear Patt Morrison neglect to challenge this woman on her and her company's stance, to put the Goldstone Report in perspective. This could have been done briefly if necessary. And disappointing to hear Morrison avidly invite her back!

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It seems irresponsible of Patt Morrison, as a journalist, to neglect to

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