Honorable Bill Delahunt
United States Representative, Massachusetts, Democrat
Representative Delahunt, of the Tenth District of Massachusetts, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He is the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight. The following is from his opening remarks during the subcommittee’s July 13, 2007, hearing on UN Peacekeeping Operations. With the ongoing war in Iraq, we need toseriously think about how we accomplish as a Nation our foreign policyobjectives with global challenges such as the spread of nuclear weapons, thecontinued threat of al Qaeda, thousands of civilians being killed and displacedaround the world,…
