Why the UN Needs Bolton...

Roger Bates on TechCentralStation notes that Zimbabwe has just been named to the UN Commission on Human Rights. What a farce. Bates points out:

"For the UN to have voted Zimbabwe onto the UN Commission for Human Rights it had to ignore the following:

The 20,000 members of the opposition that Mugabe ordered killed in the 1980s

The destruction of half of the economy in the past five years to maintain power; the regular physical abuse encountered by any opposition to his regime (and that includes just saying nasty things about the leader)

The lack of free media

Food allocation used as a political weapon

Helping wage a war in the Congo so that Mugabe and his cronies make millions from conflict diamonds

The neglect of the entire health system so that life expectancy has dropped from 55 to 33 years in the past decade."

Read the article and tell me why the UN is worth saving...