Geeeeeee that’s hard to believe, eh?

UNITED NATIONS - The hallmark of this year’s U.N. General Assembly debate has been the heavy anti-American tone from not only its rivals like Iran and Venezuela, but also a host of more moderate nations, a trend underscoring the United States- troubled image in the world.

One after another, speakers in the General Assembly have lamented a world gone wrong - renewed turmoil in the Middle East, a wider gap between rich and poor, anxiety about human rights abuses. While the U.S. is not mentioned often, the reference is clear.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, for example, accused powerful nations of failing to solve the Middle East conflict, and argued a more equitable world is in rich nations- interests - “as long as they do not make the mistake of ignoring the hideous cry of the excluded.”

Read more at MSNBC

Email this Post  | RSS 2.0  |  Trackback  |  Filed under: United Nations