I understand the impulse to trivialize them, but in case you’re unaware of the utterly irrational behavior of the US towards cuba here is a decent, if oft-accused-of-western-bias summary. In particular relations with Cuba were at a low point during the Bush presidency, a marked (and characteristically amoral) shift in the US approach from even the prior year. The spats with Russia as well are not exactly trivial.
Further though, I invite you to read the full text - the 2005 (and later) resolutions call for a reaffirmation of article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which (in part) reads :
[All states] Shall declare an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred
which with regards to the US would be an outright violation of the 1st amendment, and likely is the reason for the 63 abstentions on the vote for the 2005 resolution (an aside, I do think it’s pretty ‘chicken-shit’ for of most of Europe not to actually commit to voting no on this resolution, instead choosing to hide behind the US’s skirts. I do hope that behavior doesn’t portend the next two decades of european geopoli-- oh look at that what a shock). Given that, it’s a fatalistic conclusion that the US would vote no, even aside from the petty geopolitical reasons they would have for it.
What other parts would you like me to address?
If you’re comfortable considering the broken links adequately settled I happily will as well, I just wanted to clarify that I am in no way opposed to criticism on those points.
I understand the impulse to trivialize them, but in case you’re unaware of the utterly irrational behavior of the US towards cuba here is a decent, if oft-accused-of-western-bias summary. In particular relations with Cuba were at a low point during the Bush presidency, a marked (and characteristically amoral) shift in the US approach from even the prior year. The spats with Russia as well are not exactly trivial.
Further though, I invite you to read the full text - the 2005 (and later) resolutions call for a reaffirmation of article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which (in part) reads :
which with regards to the US would be an outright violation of the 1st amendment, and likely is the reason for the 63 abstentions on the vote for the 2005 resolution (an aside, I do think it’s pretty ‘chicken-shit’ for of most of Europe not to actually commit to voting no on this resolution, instead choosing to hide behind the US’s skirts. I do hope that behavior doesn’t portend the next two decades of european geopoli-- oh look at that what a shock). Given that, it’s a fatalistic conclusion that the US would vote no, even aside from the petty geopolitical reasons they would have for it.
If you’re comfortable considering the broken links adequately settled I happily will as well, I just wanted to clarify that I am in no way opposed to criticism on those points.