Nseej | The Atlantic : #Obama's #UN Address and the #Bahrain Exception
 

24-09-11 05:48 PM

Nseej | The Atlantic : #Obama's #UN Address and the #Bahrain Exception.
Why is the #U.S. treating this Arab state so differently than the others?

President Barack Obama, in his speech today to the United Nations, championed the growing U.S. foreign policy emphasis on supporting pro-democracy movements, name-checking the U.S. support for popular uprisings in Libya, Syria, Côte d'Ivoire, and even Yemen. He offered (somewhat retroactive) support for the successful democratic revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. And he made the usual, if unusually brief, call for Iran to improve its human rights. But Obama's tone changed when he brought up the tiny, oil-rich Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain, where the U.S.-aligned monarchy has been cracking down violently on peaceful demonstrators, to little public protest from the U.S.

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Obama's UN Address and the Bahrain Exception
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Why is the U.S. treating this Arab state so differently than the others?

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