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And Over at the UN, the Good News Is…

December 14, 2006 - 2:14 pm - by Claudia Rosett
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2006-12-20 11:49:34

This is slightly deranged.

“Build Human Rights Coalition from US, Australia, Israel, some of Europeans, and demand in UN to shift Human Rights issues to them.” How exactly would you set up criteria for this coalition that would be any less arbitrary than the previous – and unacceptable – Human Rights Commission? Especially considering that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the ICRC have all criticised the US’ human rights record?

A League of Democracies that involves “Canada, Australia, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Britian, etc”? Presumably you won’t be including France and Germany, because despite being democracies they both opposed the war in Iraq?