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To: Tadsamillionaire who started this subject	8/31/2002 12:33:35 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	of 411

The human rights vote spurred calls by some U.S. lawmakers to withhold $582 million in back dues for the United Nations and $67 million to rejoin UNESCO 17 years after the United States left over concerns about political polarization. Former U.S. drug policy director Barry McCaffrey said another strike at the United States could "add to the sentiment in Congress that would say, 'Why should we support regional or multinational U.N. operations?"' McCaffrey, who used to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy, framed the vote as a sharper blow to other countries than to the United States. "It's a great loss to the international community to not have us in a leadership position," her said. "We play a dominant role in the research and development of drug treatment programs in the world." In the corridors at the United Nations, diplomats and U.N. officials said after the human rights defeat that the United States didn't lobby hard enough. The absence of a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for nearly four months has exacerbated the problem. Many nations — including U.S. allies in Europe — are angry at the Bush administration's rejection of an international agreement to reduce global warming and its plans to push ahead with a new missile defense system. President Bush has also refused to ratify the treaty creating an international criminal court, and the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that "member states, particularly those who have been very strongly supportive of the international criminal court, have been disappointed by the U.S. not coming on board." Critics at home have accused the Bush administration of retreating from a leading role worldwide, arguing that the United States can do more to ensure its security by participating in international organizations than by standing on the sidelines. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- usatoday.com

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