(Washington Post) Colum Lynch - Russia and China cast a veto at the UN Security Council on Tuesday to block a resolution condemning Syria for its brutal crackdown on protesters. Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar al-Jaafari, thanked the "voices of the wise" who had confronted what he characterized as colonial and military aspirations of Western powers that are "doomed to failure." The vote triggered an angry reaction from Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, who walked out of the Security Council meeting in protest during the Syrian envoy's statement, in which he accused the U.S. of being a "party to genocide" through its support of Israel.
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