{"id":79193,"date":"2018-05-01T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T01:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79193"},"modified":"2018-05-01T22:07:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T02:07:21","slug":"niki-haley-taking-names-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79193","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley ‘taking names’ at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFox News<\/a> reports former South Carolina Governor and current American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned when she took the office she’d be \u201ctaking names\u201d of countries that do not have \u201cour back.\u201d Now, a recently released State Department report on voting records at the UN tells her who exactly are America\u2019s friends and foes. <\/p>\n

The report revealed that U.N. members voted with the United States only 31 percent of the time last year\u2013 down 10 percent from last year. Haley stated this is not an \u201cacceptable return\u201d on the United States\u2019 investment and suggested this could factor in future foreign aid decisions.<\/p>\n

Haley emphasized that U.S. taxpayers pay for 22 percent of the U.N. budget \u2013 more, she said, than the next three highest donor nations combined. Haley noted that the U.S. cares more about \u201cbeing right than popular and are once again standing up for our interests and values\u201d but said:<\/p>\n

“Either way, this is not an acceptable return on our investment. When we arrived at the UN last year, we said we would be taking names, and this list of voting records speaks for itself. President Trump wants to ensure that our foreign assistance dollars \u2013 the most generous in the world \u2013 always serve American interests, and we look forward to helping him see that the American people are no longer taken for granted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the report, the country that voted least with the U.S. was Zimbabwe \u2013 having voted zero times with America. According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) foreign aid explorer website, Zimbabwe received $58 million in aid for this year.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the bottom 10 nations not aligned with the U.S. were: Burundi, which received $2.9 million in U.S. aid; Iran (no U.S. aid); Syria ($72 million); Venezuela ($230,000); North Korea (no U.S. aid); Turkmenistan ($200,000); Cuba ($115,000); Bolivia ($115,000); and South Africa ($100 million). All figures are from the USAID explorer website.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the country that voted most with the United States in the U.N. General Assembly was Israel. The other nine on the top 10 list were U.S. allies Micronesia, Canada, Marshall Islands, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Palau, Ukraine and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

Martin Edwards, a professor at Seton Hall University\u2019s School of Diplomacy and International Relations in New Jersey, told Fox News that the report provided a \u201cnice grandstanding tactic\u201d for Haley but said it raised more questions than answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unclear what this will mean for current foreign aid recipients — are we really going to give less humanitarian aid to South Sudan? How does that advance our interests?\u201d he said.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well Martin, other than enriching corrupt bureaucrats, exactly what are our interests in South Sudan, and why should we provide them, or any of the other’s on the hit list, with hard earned American tax dollars? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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