Once again the United Nations thumbs its nose at the United States. And Washington responds not with a stinging rebuke but with a collective sigh.
The upshot will be evident come May, when the U.N. elects a new Human Rights Council to replace its discredited Human Rights Commission.
The U.S. didn't just lose its argument for a realistic human rights body. It got its nose rubbed in it. Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson called U.S. opposition a "temporary loss of moral compass."
A moral compass⢠The U.N. couldn't find "morality" if it had a compass, a road map and a flashlight.
The U.S. had requested that membership requirements prohibit the world's worst rights abusers from serving on the new U.N. panel -- and essentially insulating themselves. The U.N. wouldn't have any part of that.
Instead the appeasers of abusers overwhelming decreed that any nation with a majority of General Assembly votes -- 96 -- can get on the 47-member panel. And it will take a two-thirds majority to bounce a member.
Who do you think this pack of pariahs will go after⢠Not Sudan. Certainly not Cuba. Try the United States and Israel.
So now the door is left open for the U.N. to create a mirror image of its disgraced Human Rights Commission. Washington says it won't withhold funding for this abomination. And the U.S. beatings, rest assured, will continue.
