Cruz blasts Obama’s UN ‘lecture’
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday lambasted President Obama’s address at the United Nations, calling his message a “lecture” that blames “the United States for the woes of the world.”
{mosads}”Unfortunately, President Obama chose to deliver a lecture on the need to abdicate our sovereignty in the interests of abstract international norms,” Cruz, a former 2016 presidential candidate, wrote in a Facebook post.
“Ironically, that is the worst thing America could do for the world, which needs strong leadership to promote peace, not capitulation to an unelected, authoritarian collective.”
In his 48-minute address to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama painted a picture of global progress and cooperation between nations.
“We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration, or we can retreat into a world sharply divided and ultimately in conflict along age-old lines of nation and tribe and race and religion,” Obama said. “I want to suggest to you today that we must go forward and not back.”
The Texas senator, however, thought that Obama should have been more passionate in promoting American interests and blasting authoritarian regimes that repeatedly violate human rights.
“Mr. Obama would have done much better to use this opportunity to advance an American agenda, not a global one, and praise our nation as a model of liberty and tolerance,” he said.
“He should have called out oppressive regimes from the Russian Federation to the People’s Republic of China for denying their citizens basic political freedoms,” he said.
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