Saturday, September 22, 2007
RG Combs "spouts off" about what's going on in New York: The sanction of the victim:
In 1983, after the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines flight 007, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko canceled a trip to the U.N. after Governor Mario Cuomo of New York and Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey (not exactly rabid right-wingers) both vowed not to allow a Soviet plane to land in their states.
In 1988, the Reagan Administration denied Arafat a visa to speak to the U.N. because he was a terrorist. The U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution condemning the United States, and then packed up and moved to Geneva, where Arafat was warmly embraced...
I had forgotten about the Arafat bit. Here's a contemporaneous New York Times article: U.S. DENIES ARAFAT ENTRY FOR SPEECH TO SESSION OF U.N.:
Here's a little back story.
Of course, Ahmadinejad is actually a head of a state, so I'm sure that complicates things.
Oh yes, and the Generally Assembly did end up having a special session in Geneva just to hear Arafat speak.
