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A Tyrants Club
OpinionJournal ^ | January 22, 2003 | Claudia Rosett

Posted on 01/22/2003 4:15:09 AM PST by AzJohn

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Among those who value liberty and justice, the United Nations' choice of Libya to chair this year's session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has been widely described as a defeat. By some lights it's a defeat for the U.S.--which protested giving this post to an emissary of terror-sponsoring tyrant Moammar Gadhafi. By U.S. standards it's a defeat for the Human Rights Commission and the entire system of international justice the U.N. pretends to promote. All of which sounds bad, but comfortably abstract; just one more round of folly at the U.N.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: humanrights; libya; unitednations

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