Doug Carter wrote:

Martin Hotze wrote:

Norway tops UN list over best places to live (...)

A UN list showing the U.S. in an unfavorable light? GASP!!

Better check your meds dude; this is the same U.N. that
appointed Lybia as the chair of the human rights commission.

"January 2003, The Libyan candidate, diplomat and former
journalist Najat al-Hajjaji, won 33 votes in a secret
ballot of the 53-country Commission, with 17 states
abstaining and three voting no -- apparently including the
United States."

So what's the problem? The US got to vote. If it didn't come out the way we
wanted, we have the opportunity to change it next time around. That's the
way it's supposed to work. What doesn't work is only going along with the
UN when one agrees with it. Rule of law and all that.

And besides, by putting someone like this in charge of the commission could
conceivably do more to foster human rights because of the extra scrutiny.

Diplomat, former journalist? I've never heard of him, does he have some
record of human rights abuse? Or does he have a history of speaking out
against oppression?

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Frank....H