NYT: A Frustrating Week at the U.N. for the White House Team

[Pirate Smile]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 - After weeks of trying to rally international support to confront Iran over its nuclear program and to reform the United Nations, the Bush administration has had an unusually frustrating week, rebuffed by crucial partners and also by a coalition of poor countries increasingly resentful of American power.

The result is that the drive to press Tehran over its suspected nuclear weapons program has stalled, as have efforts to introduce sweeping budgetary changes at the United Nations and to scrap the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

"The work of diplomacy doesn't always proceed at the pace you would hope," a senior State Department official said, saying he could be more candid if not quoted by name. "Do we wish the results of a week of diplomacy would be more clear-cut? Yes. But at least everybody feels we're moving in the right direction."

The Iranian situation has been at an impasse for weeks, as the United States and its European partners have sent envoys to countries around the world to rally support for a vote at the International Atomic Energy Agency's board meeting next week to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council for possible condemnation or sanctions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/politics/17diplo.html

[Bumblebee]

1. Nothing about the bathroom break?! :)

[Dover]

2. Well, at least Conan covered it in his opening monologue.........

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Showed Bush speaking in New Orleans, and as often happens George pauses for a long time with a strangely pained, bewildered look into the camera....during which we hear the sound effects of Bush tinkling.


LOL!

[Erika]

3. Yeah, W's bathroom break appeared as his only priority

Oh, well.

[Lorien]

4. Diplomacy?

try incessant bullying!

[applegrove]

5. I waiting for all the world crisis to happen: genocide, pestilence,

and other things of a humanitarian nature. And we can then sit and watch the WH again... look at their fingers, scold UN members for not making lists according to the rules.. and wait until the people of the world get the message: that Halliburton should always be the first call.

[fooj]

6. Boo hoo. Boo hoo hoo.

:sarcasm:

[tanyev]

7. Yosemite John hasn't whipped those varmints into submission yet?

That's hard to believe. :eyes:

[Toots]

8. "The work of diplomacy doesn't always proceed at the pace you would hope,"

"It's Hard!" :shrug: Diplomacy, they wouldn't know the meaning of the word. It is a totally foreign concept to them as evidenced by their pick as UN Diplomat....

[JohnyCanuck]

9. World to Dubya: "Go FUCK YOURSELF, Mr. Bush" n/t