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.

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