Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

I actually laughed when I read this Noah Pollak column in Politico (natch).

Among the first things the Obama administration did to break from the “unilateral” policies of the Bush administration was to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, which the U.S. shunned when it was formed in 2006. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised that “we will engage in the work of improving the U.N. human rights system.” U.N. ambassador Susan Rice declared that we were joining “because we believe that working from within, we can make the council a more effective forum to promote and protect human rights.”

Now, almost a year and a half later, the Council remains as it ever was: a body composed of some of the worst human rights abusers in the world, devoted to attacking Western democracies, demonizing Israel, covering up the abuses of authoritarian regimes, and undermining the pursuit of human rights. The only difference today is that America’s name is being lent to this effort. 

I don't know what's more darkly hysterical, the thought that anyone outside the country actually believes the United States is protecting anyone's human rights when we're happily killing people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, incarcerating millions of people, allowing massive abuses of civil liberties and issuing Presidential assassination orders...

...or the fact that Pollak thinks America should leave the Council because somehow doesn't belong on "a body composed of some of the worst human rights abusers in the world".  We fit in just fine, especially given the last nine years.

That is some truly funny stuff right there.