I’ll keep my ranting to myself, but I wanted to share this article with the teeming masses.
The article is a long one. Here’s an excerpt:
Sudan has also drawn the ire of the international community for permitting widespread slavery and repeated human rights abuses. A year ago, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom described the nation as “the world’s most violent abuser of the right to freedom of religion and belief.”
Nevertheless, at the United Nations, Sudan and the United States have repeatedly been on the same page lately. The U.S. has joined with Sudan – and a host of other Islamic countries – to undercut the international consensus on issues ranging from children’s health to women’s rights and global family planning.
There’s oh, so much more. My favorite gem is not from a Bush admin official, though, just a private citizen:
Thomas Jacobson, Focus on the Family’s United Nations manager, took the hyperbole one step further. He claimed CEDAW “seems to pit wives against husbands, girls against fathers, and to attempt to remove [women] from under any male authority.”