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Article: Europe betrayed U.S. on U.N. vote; Human Rights Commission: What's needed now is not overreaction, but for officials to discuss how to avoid a replay of this botched vote
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2001
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Last week the United States was voted off the U.N. Human Rights
Commission for the first time in the 50 years since Eleanor
Roosevelt helped found that body. Voted on to the commission was
Sudan, a country that enslaves women and children.
This was an embarrassing defeat. Forty-three of the 53 countries
eligible to vote had made commitments to support us, but only 29 did
so. That means 14 lied, and the defectors most certainly included
some European allies.
Everyone, from the administration to Congress to our allies,
seems poised to absorb the wrong lessons from this debacle.
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice blames the vote on a
backlash led by those who oppose our tough ...