President George Dubya made his anticipated speech at the U.N. General Assembly yesterday. As Marshall says in his Talking Points Memo Blog:
"After reading the speech several times it seemed to me that when you peeled away the Cheney-esque bluster you had a Powell-esque policy.No one is mentioning this. The White House had one policy. They hit a brick wall. Now they've changed policies.
And that's good. Because this is a better policy."
I'm happy to cautiously agree.
Another piece of good news - we rejoined UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) today after an eight year absence. Here's the description of the organization:
UNESCO was created in 1946 and currently has 188 member states. UNESCO promotes collaboration among nations in education, science, culture, and communications. Among its key work areas are expanding educational opportunities, protecting world heritage sites, developing reliable world scientific standards and statistics, and promoting freedom of expression and human rights.
So a few pieces of good news.
Comments (2)
How come we weren't in the UNESCO for 8 years? I'm happy to hear that the Bush administration has decided to rejoin, at least we're not completely out of the UN organizations.
Posted by lisa | September 13, 2002 8:29 AM
Posted on September 13, 2002 08:29
From the White House:
The United States withdrew from UNESCO in 1984, citing poor management and values opposed to our own. For example, the Director-General of UNESCO at the time advocated for limitations on a free press.
Anyone else know why we withdrew from UNESCO?
Posted by teddy | September 19, 2002 4:14 PM
Posted on September 19, 2002 16:14