Norm highlights a silly Mary Robinson in support of doing nothing against genocide (implicitly).
normblog:
Sackur: "One fascinating insight into human rights attitudes round the world I had in recent weeks was chatting to Mary Robinson who till very recently was the UN chief running the Human Rights Commission. She said the problem is that, because of what has happened, post-Iraq in particular, with Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, a whole host of other things she listed, it is impossible now for countries like America which basically are democracies, which many people around the world have always looked up to - the problem is now they cannot take the moral high ground and lecture other countries on how they should impose human rights values. It doesn't work any more...

Webb: That's absolutely ludicrous, though, isn't it?"

No, it's pathetic. Because America is not perfect, it has no moral authority to say anybody else's human rights abuses are terrible. Mary Robinson, after Clinton lied about "no genocide" in Rwanda -- thinks the US still has moral authority. After Abu Ghraib, an almost inevitable kind of minor problem of actually doing something, all moral authority is lost.

UN hypocrites make me sick.