Examiner
Mere hours after declaring victory
and his intent for “reaching out and working with leaders of both
parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together,” President Barack Obama demonstrated some of that “flexibility”
he predicted he’d have after the election when his administration
backed a “U.N. committee's call…to renew debate over a draft
international treaty to regulate the $60 billion global arms trade,” Reuters reported today.
“Arms control advocates had hoped Obama would back the treaty if he
was re-elected,” Reuters explained, and that he would was a given, as it
was his administration that reversed previous policy in 2009
and resurrected U.S. participation based on “consensus,” albeit that
was not something his campaign felt prudent to advertise in an election
deemed by many a toss-up.-[Full Article]
