Susan Rice’s miserable record at the UN
Rice has been consistently silent on other important issues and ineffective when she does engage. She skipped Security Council meetings when Israel needed defending and even failed to show up for the emergency session on the Gaza Flotilla incident.
Rice didn’t even show up for the first two emergency Security Council meetings on the unfolding Arab Spring revolution last year. Rice stayed silent when Iran was elected to the U.N. women’s committee, she didn’t call out Libya when it was elected to the Human Rights Council, she was absent from the Haiti crisis meeting and was a no-show for the last open meeting scheduled before the planned UN vote to recognize Palestinian statehood. When she actually does show up, she is a miserable failure.
Take the crucial issue of Iran. Rice spent the last several years undermining and grumbling about the Bush administration’s increasingly tough measures but has only been able to pass one resolution of her own – compared with the Bush team’s five.
Rice’s one and only Iran resolution was almost 30 months ago. And it passed with just 12 votes of support – the least support we have ever seen for a Security Council sanctions resolution on Iran.
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She definitely needs to be replaced…she would work well at CNN.
d1carter on November 16, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Rice is a leftist, so from that view she’s done a remarkable job.
darwin on November 16, 2012 at 2:38 PM
SCOAMF, it’s not just for Obama anymore.
Rocks on November 16, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Yeah, but she is black.
Your argument is invalid.
BL@KBIRD on November 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Her work ethic mirrors that of her boss.
Joe Mama on November 16, 2012 at 2:54 PM
She seems to spend most of her time advancing and tweeting about meaningless garbage about LGBT people. Like that is the world’s biggst problem right now.
rockmom on November 16, 2012 at 2:57 PM
What the heck does a UN ambassador do, anyway? If she skips the Security Council meetings — which one would imagine are perhaps her most important duties — I can’t believe she has that much else on her plate. She should be promptly replaced!
KS Rex on November 16, 2012 at 4:03 PM