According to the secretary-general of Amnesty International, one Irene Khan, the United States' actions (presumably at Abu Ghraib) represent the most sustained attack on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights since its signing in 1948.
To this, The Daily Telegraph responds,
"Erm, what about the Russian gulag, Pol Pot's Cambodia, the Great Leap Forward and mass starvation in China, the Hutu slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda, Ne Win's Burma, North Korea under the Kims, the Argentinian disappearances, French colonialism in Algeria, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, Idi Amin's Uganda, Jean-Bedel Bokassa's Central African Republic, Slobodan Milosevic's quest for Greater Serbia. We could go on."
For my part, the answer is obvious: None of those countries perpetrating the included offenses there were the United States. Remember today's lesson, kids: It's only wrong when fifty United States dubbed America do it.
Tip of the Wisconsin hat to NRO's own sour Brit, Andrew Stuttaford.
(Despite this being about violations of a document which is part of international law, The Country Pundit recognizes no law outside of the United States of America other than that which our Navy and other armed forces can enforce. Thus, the category is Politics.)
Posted by Country Pundit at May 28, 2004 04:23 PM