One man, one vote, one candidate.
That’s just the way the US likes it in Yemen, and according to a new resolution by the UN Security Council that’s how the international community likes it too. Following up on recommendations from officials, the resolution endorses the single candidate election that installed the US-backed Major General Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Following in the footsteps of an executive decision by President Obama worded almost the exact same way, the Security Council resolution threatens sanctions against anyone who does anything to “undermine” the Yemeni democracy, candidate-free though it may be.
The resolution cites Article 41 of the UN charter, saying that empowers the council to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on anyone who ignores their decisions, in this case the decision being that the election was just fine.
Hadi was installed as part of a negotiated settlement on the ouster of Ali Abdullah Saleh, with Hadi taking his position and the political opposition being given a few cabinet posts on the condition that no
The UN position is quite absurd. They clearly speak out of both sides of their mouth so whatever they have to say about any other country is quite meaningless.
Now you just watch your mouth, Ditz, and remember that U.N. Security Council resolutions trump the U.S. Constitution's war powers clause (remember Korea?), so they prolly trump the First Amendment too. You all terrorists here at Antiwar.com had better watch yerselves when ya go to the ATM tomorrow morning.
To hell with the UN. at some point in time the US needs to kick these worthless dirtbags to the curb. Whatever happens or should have happened in Yemin is their business, as a US citizen I could not be further away. I understand some peoples anxiety about what is happening but it is not a US problem. This idea that any dissident group from any country on the planet, can appeal to the US to bomb their country oust their leader and install themselves as leader has to stop! This has been happening for years, The first gulf war was a start and then bosnia and so many other there after.
If Congress is looking for leaks, then they should look no further than themselves. All those groups they belong which have no back ground checks or any need to know, fact is we don't these outside groups, when we have the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc… Why do our Congress people consult private sector persons ignoring their own intel, which costs the taxpayer double the money? This makes no sense and the threat to our national security is very high considering those outside groups, well no one knows who they are. If Congress does not like what our own security personnel provide as far as info well maybe they should fire them rather than go to unauthorized sources for their information.
The Russians should have demanded the same terms for Assad government after the recent election. After all, they were no more or less democratic than the Yemeni ones.
ps Please feel free to delete this comment if you feel it undermines Yemeni "democracy" – I wouldn't want Antiwar.com to suffer UN sanctions. However, I would say that the United States has already destroyed it.
We can only pray for people that have been now blessed not only with democracy, but with the edict that they, and everybody else, must rejoice in that democracy — or else. I am not sure though if praying and well wishing may be considered subversive.
What a joke. Some "democracy."
I'm thinking that with the Chinese and Russians challenging the west on Iran and Syria and having no geo-political interests in Yemen, this was allowed to slide by. I wonder if they voted for it or simply abstained?