OPINION:
Come dinner time on the East Coast, the United States will have announced its intent to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
That’s according to Bloomberg, and to Reuters, the latter of which reported a few days ago that it wasn’t “a question of if but of when” the United States would get out of this U.N. body.
Good deal; about dang time.
For years, for eight long Barack Obama years, the pro-America types in politics have criticized the HRC for this or that, or that or this, almost all tied to its anti-West, anti-Israel actions — not to mention its galling habit of putting heads of state with little regard for human rights in charge of dictating and overseeing global, human rights’ policies.
But now, with Mike Pompeo at the State Department helm and Nikki Haley at the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations post, and John Bolton at the National Security Adviser podium — and more importantly, a very “America First” President Donald Trump in the White House seat — the United States is finally going to do more than issue strongly worded statements of criticism.
The United States is going to step back and bow out and basically tell the UNHRC — to go to h-e-double-hockey-sticks.
It’s not as if the body hadn’t been put on notice. It’s not as if due warning hadn’t been given.
“For our part, the United States will not sit quietly while this body, supposedly dedicated to human rights, continues to damage the cause of human rights,” Haley said in a speech to the body last year. “In the end, no speech and no structural reforms will save the members of the Human Rights Council from themselves.”
Apparently, this White House meant it.
The UNHCR just opened its newest session, with plans to talk about Israel and the Palestinian peace process on July 2.
This time around, America won’t be there to kick around.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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