Why, 'tis almost as if the administration prefers outright tyrants to its closest friends. Oh how I wonder what the reason for that might be. For the professed sake of the occasional hypocrisy of its allies, the US is courting despots. The idea that it's leaving because the UN isn't doing a good enough job, at a time when it's putting children into cages and separating them from their families, is highly refined bullshit indeed.
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While I'm sure he'd be horrified to be compared in any way to the current administration in the White House, there is something of Groucho Marx about the US statement. The UNHRC is obviously no good at protecting human rights because just look at the things it is letting America get away with.
ReplyDelete"I refuse to join any club human rights organisation that would have me as a member." waggles cigar