February 6, 2022
A PEOPLE WHO THINK THEMSELVES A NATION ARE ONE:
Biden's dangerous refusal to reverse Trump's Western Sahara policy (Stephen Zunes, 2/06/22, Responsible Statecraft)
In his final weeks in office, President Donald Trump stunned the international community in formally recognizing Western Sahara as part of Morocco. Morocco has occupied much of its southern neighbor since 1975, when it invaded and annexed the former Spanish colony in defiance of the United Nations Security Council and a landmark ruling of the International Court of Justice.Most observers believed that, as with some of Trump's other impetuous foreign policy decisions, President Joe Biden would reverse it soon after coming to office. However, much to the disappointment of bipartisan congressional leaders, career State Department officials, major U.S. allies, North Africa scholars, and the human rights community, he has refused to do so. [...]For the Moroccans, the U.S. recognition has only solidified their insistence that self-determination is out of the question.
All he had to do was not be Donald. Opposing Muslim self-determination is anti-American.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 6, 2022 12:00 AM