While hundreds of thousands are dying due to the callous indifference of the military junta in Burma and millions are fleeing oppression and hunger in Robert Mugabe’s brutal Zimbabwe, the UN’s farcical Human Rights Council (HRC) is focusing its attention on the United States. This week sees the arrival on US soil of Doudou Diene, the UN Special Rapporteur charged with investigating “racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” in America.
I've written a piece on the issue for National Review Online.
It is hard to take the UN seriously when its peacekeepers are actively engaged in raping refugees in the Congo and even arming rebel groups, or when it turns a blind eye to the man-made starvation of millions in southern Africa. In the arena of human rights, the United Nations has become an emperor with no clothes, a morally bankrupt institution that wallows in its double standards and appeasement of evil. Doudou Diene’s investigation of the United States should be seen for what it is: a desperate piece of political theater that underscores the UN’s growing irrelevance.
