The new White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said Thursday that he would not say whether the United States would invoke its rarely used veto power in the Council.
The United States vetoes Security Council resolutions more often than any other country. (The Soviet Union once racked up an impressive record in a short amount of time, but since 1970 or so the United States has led by a wide margin.)
Many of those vetoes concern resolutions critical of Israel--by now, this is fairly well-known, well-documented phenomenon.
Is it opposite day?
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