Council hits new heights of absurdity February 22, 2009 The New York Daily News Original Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_unseen_abuses_the_clownish_united_nation.html http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_gov_paterson_must_show_strong_leadership.html Gov. Paterson must show strong leadership http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_we_need_a_doctor_president_obama_should_.html Obama should reappoint Dr. John Howard as WTC health czar What do these have in common: genocide in Darfur; child soldiers in Chad and Congo; compulsory sterilization of women in China; suppression of dissent in Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia; rape as a political weapon in Zimbabwe; sex trafficking in Asia; denial of human rights to minorities and women in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries? Answer: None of those gross abuses has drawn the notice of the United Nations Human Rights Council. No, the council has had other matters to attend to, the vast majority of which focused on Israel. Pretty much whenever an Israeli soldier has responded to terrorism, the group has cranked out a formal condemnation. Twenty in less than three years. But now the council has broadened its portfolio. It has turned to brainstorming over the ills likely to flow from the global economic meltdown - meaning, let's figure out how to heap blame on the U.S. It also has decried the human rights threat posed by global warming, declaring: The inundation and disappearance of small island States would have implications for the right to self-determination. Take that, global warming. 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