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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (15277)3/20/2006 6:48:06 AM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (51) of 35834
 
ANOTHER HORROR AT TURTLE BAY

NEW YORK Post
Editorial
March 20, 2006

The U.N. General Assembly last week overwhelmingly approved a new human-rights body over U.S. objections - then loudly congratulated itself for sticking its finger in Washington's eye.

There was sustained applause following the 170-4 vote (only Israel, the Marshall Islands and Pulau joined the United States in opposition) to replace the U.N.'s pathetic human-rights commission, which boasted such notorious human-rights violators as Libya and Sudan as members.

Problem is, the new body will be an even more feeble "Human Rights Council." Here's a tipoff: The much-watered-down version of the reform plan from Secretary-General Kofi Annan won the enthusiastic endorsement of Jimmy Carter and Ted Turner.

As we noted last week, the new body is no reform at all - in fact, it will tighten control of the U.N. human-rights agenda by regimes that regularly violate human rights.

As America's voice at Turtle Bay, John Bolton, rightly put it, calling this "reform" is like "putting lipstick on a caterpillar and calling it a butterfly."

In that respect, it was disappointing that Western states that shared America's misgivings over the council, including Canada and the European Union, didn't vote "no" - reportedly because they felt that renegotiating the council's rule might doom it entirely.

So what if it had?

Bolton pledged that Washington would work with the Human Rights Council in an effort to strengthen it.

But it will be an uphill climb.

And, no doubt, it won't be long before more than a few nations have cause to rue their silence.

nypost.com
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