OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT:

In his September 2009 address to the UN General Assembly, President Barack Obama candidly admitted that much international distrust of his country had been created because, among other things, "on certain critical issues, America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others." 

He promised to rectify this and declared that "we will strengthen our support for effective peacekeeping, while energizing our efforts to prevent conflicts before they take hold." It was apparent that emphasis was going to be given to international peacekeeping in accordance with the UN Charter. [...]

And when Obama gave his belligerent anti-Russia speech at the General Assembly on September 24, do you know how many times he mentioned 'peacekeeping'? 

Not once. 

He deplored terrorist violence, which is understandable, and told the Assembly that he condemned the firing of rockets "at innocent Israelis" - without uttering one word of criticism about the 50-day Israeli blitz on Gaza that killed 1,462 civilians, including 253 women and 495 children. (He made reference to "the lives of so many Palestinian children taken from us in Gaza" - as if the butchery had been caused by some sort of ghostly tsunami of rockets and bombs from an anonymous aerial Zeus, the god of sky and thunder.) 

Then he went on to chair a meeting of the Security Council at which he didn't mention UN peacekeeping or Israel's continuing flagrant disobedience of Security Council Resolutions, although he did declare that "In the face of this [terrorist] threat, many of our nations - working together and through the United Nations - have increased our cooperation." 

But such cooperation depends entirely, from the US point of view, on every other nation following the Washington line.

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