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U.S. regains seat on UN human rights council

Posted by AquaVelvet on Apr 29, 2002 at 04:22 PM

Congratulations to the US of A this week for successfully winning its seat back on the United Nation's Human Rights Council. [link] Without even having to pay on any its back dues or make any cushy concessions to whining Third World countries over debt relief or our own human rights abuses, the US has strong-armed its way back onto the council seat it had previously held since 1947. Granted, we won it by default when Italy and Spain dropped out of the running, but take heart; there was plenty of back room dealing and scheming going on too. We rule!

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Ademu spoke on Apr 29, 2002 at 04:45 PM

You know, it would be one thing for this country to carry on with the human rights abuses and interfering with democracy in other soveriegn nations if it was the will of people in this country, but I don't think that's the case. It's because they can carry on without people knowing about it and be held completely unaccountable.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there was any affect on this even when we lost our seat on the council. The core of foreign policy transcends partison lines, and as long as free trade and the assumption that the US must maintain both its role as a global superpower and its prerogative to use force to "protect" its interests, this is never going to change.

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