Yes, missed that on Cuba too. The Reuters article sheds this light.
It would require further lengthy legal deliberations for Democratic President-elect Joe Biden to reverse the designation.
Possibly it’s one of those norms things Biden loves to actually follow legal advice procedures on these things. Bad luck starving Yemeni kids.
Seems like Trump is trying to tempt Biden to do what Flynn did with the Russians.
How long will it take Biden to undo all of this shit. I feel like if he sets a few people on it, maybe a month at most?
Yeah, I’m usually optimistic but I have a feeling Biden is going to leave a ton of awful shit in place because of unity and not want to set the precedent of the incoming president undoing all the previous presidents work like Trump did Obama. Only for the next Republican to come in and literally undo everything he did.
It’s OK, as someone on twitter pointed out then actually congress can revoke this easily.
- Revocation by Act of Congress
The Congress, by an Act of Congress, may block or revoke a designation made under paragraph 1.
Paragraph 1 just being how the Secretary of State does it in the first place.
Expect we’ll see quick and decisive action once the Democrats are in charge.
He doesn’t want to set the precedent of an eDem politician acknowledging reality. That’s too divisive.
Easily create „Democrats are weak on terrorism“ headlines?
There’s years worth of horror stories from Yemen where one of the worst humanitarian disasters of our time has been unfolding, and the literal effect of this designation is to make aid more difficult. It’s a slam dunk story about dying children if they want it, and one they have already done some ground work on (the house has passed resolutions calling for US support to stop.)
And you think that is going to stop anyone from airing „Congressman xyz is weak on terrorism.“ in two years?
They’ll do that anyway
What Mimosa said, but my point is that if they want it this is a PR war between a bureaucratic designation in a country no one gives a shit about, and lots of pictures of starving children. If anyone wants to take the bureaucracy side of that they should be welcome to it.
If you’re saying US politicians don’t want to create that PR war precisely because they’ll win it, and at which point all sorts of US links to the Yemen war and its prosecution might be an ongoing problem, then I might be more inclined to agree.
But this way you even have evidence. „Ansar Allah is an Iran-backed terrorist organization. Their motto is „Death to the USA. Curse the Jews“. Why are you helping our enemies, Congressman?“ is a good soundbite.
I know we live in a post-fact world, but that statement doesn’t even have any falsifiable claims.
Nitpick, but you mean the statement doesn’t have false claims. They are falsifiable.
If that’s true then stop thinking everything after the but.
When your opponent will say anything regardless of the truth, you can do anything, regardless of what they’ll say. Ducy.
Remember when we couldn’t have Bernie because then the Rs could accuse the Ds of RADICAL SOCIALISM. Good thing we picked the Reasonable Centrist so they couldn’t do that!
It’s his brand, so he has to try and I’m fine with that so long as he is prepared to move on to Plan B in a timely fashion.
RE: Biden undoing shit.
I understand he was pretty involved in normalizing relations with Cuba. I wouldn’t be surprised if he undoes the return to the cold war there. I expect something close to the same is true with Iran. Iran-Al Queda axis is ridiculous, no?
Probably that all calls for calling sweetsummerchild.
China-Taiwan is a tough one.