{"id":381347,"date":"2018-10-17T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-un-sheriff-nikki-haley-elevated-israel-damaged-us-standing\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:09:33","slug":"the-un-sheriff-nikki-haley-elevated-israel-damaged-us-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-un-sheriff-nikki-haley-elevated-israel-damaged-us-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"The UN \u201cSheriff\u201d: Nikki Haley Elevated Israel, Damaged US Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has made her post a \u201cmore glamorous\u201d position than her predecessors \u2013 as President Donald Trump described<\/a> Haley\u2019s 2-year term at the UN, following her resignation announcement.<\/p>\n

We may never know the nature of Haley\u2019s purported \u2018glamour\u2019 at the UN, but we certainly know that, during her relatively brief stint, Haley has further diminished her country\u2019s struggling reputation, entrenching US isolation in the world\u2019s most vital international political body.<\/p>\n

In her own words<\/a>, Haley concluded that her mission at the UN was accomplished, commending herself on three achievements: the US has become more respected; it saved a lot of money and strongly defended Israel against UN \u2018bias.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of those things have made a huge difference in the US standing,\u201d she said. \u201cThe US is strong again. And the US is strong in a way that should make all Americans very proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nothing could be further from the truth and Haley, who is suspected of engineering<\/a> a run for the White House in the future, has no evidence to back up her claim of new-found \u2018strength\u2019 and \u2018respect\u2019.<\/p>\n

During his speech before the General Assembly on September 25, Trump\u2019s preposterous claims were not met with thundering applause but humiliating laughter<\/a>. So much for respect.<\/p>\n

However, there is no question that Haley was a good fit to be Trump\u2019s representative to the international community. Her aggressive and self-aggrandizing language…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has made her post a \u201cmore glamorous\u201d position than her predecessors \u2013 as President Donald Trump described Haley\u2019s 2-year term at the UN, following her resignation announcement. We may never know the nature of Haley\u2019s purported \u2018glamour\u2019 at the UN, but we certainly know that, during her relatively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}