May 03, 2005

The NYT Said What?

I know I have bad eyesight, but when I saw the beginning to this editorial in today's New York Times, I thought perhaps I needed to head to the optometrist again:

The Bush administration did just the right thing recently when it condemned the re-election of Zimbabwe to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

The Bush administration did something right? Are pigs flying? Is the world about to end? When the NYT praises anything that has to do with W, one has to wonder.

Of course, Zimbabwe on the UN Commission on Human Rights is a joke. "President" Robert Mugabe, whose soldiers ousted white farm owners by force and hunted down members of the political party who opposed him isn't exactly a candidate for Human Rights poster boy.

No organization more embodies the U.N. at its worst than this ineffective tool of cynical politics. Its rotating members, which meet for six weeks every spring, also included China, Cuba, Sudan, Nepal, Congo, Guatemala and Saudi Arabia this year. Abusive states get on the panel so they can block criticism of their policies.

So not only do we have the NYT praising the Bush administration, but we also have it criticizing the UN in the same space. Gott in Himmel!

It's all a bit too much for me...I need to lie down for a while.

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