Article: Lewis Carroll brilliantly represented a collection of people who had lost touch with reality as a mad hatter's tea party, and that is the exact metaphor for the U.N. conference known as "Durban II" but actually held in Geneva.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)

Lewis Carroll brilliantly represented a collection of people who had lost touch with reality as a mad hatter's tea party, and that is the exact metaphor for the U.N. conference known as "Durban II" but actually held in Geneva. The subject was supposed to be human rights, and the agenda was in the hands of those whose notion of such legalisms is--what shall we say: limited, murderous? In any case, human rights turned out to have nothing to do with Sudan, Tibet, or indeed Iran or Libya or anywhere else similar. Led by President Ahmadinejad of Iran, everyone contributed to a hatefest exclusively about Israel. The United States and other countries ...

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