U.N. Ignores U.S., Approves New Council

The first part of that header, scarcely news any more, again brings up the question of why do we even bother with the UN for ANYTHING? To paraphrase an old song: “Anything you can do, we can do better! We can do anything better than you!”

U.N. member states ignored U.S. opposition and overwhelmingly approved a new Human Rights Council on Wednesday, attempting to strengthen the world body’s machinery to deal with major human rights offenders….The Bush administration refused to back the new council, saying it was not the radical reform needed to ensure that countries like Cuba, Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe – known as rights abusers – were barred from membership.

Maybe we could pay the UN to move itself to somewhere in Eurabia?