GENEVA -- Hold in your hand a moral Geiger counter, a tool to find the place where the noblest ambitions of humanity have turned into the coldest machinations of tyrants. The western shore of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, sets the counter buzzing. The setting looked ideal for the dreams of the League of Nations, the doomed predecessor of today's United Nations. Founded on the ashes of World War I, when a devastated world sought ways to avoid more devastating wars, it attempted to bring together the moral power of humanity to resolve disputes peacefully and, quite plainly, make the world a better place. The Geiger counter starts beeping furiously as we climb the sloping hills. Yes, we have reached a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The UNHRC emits poisonous moral radiation, quickly depleting the U.N.'s authority by focusing almost all its energy on one country, Israel, while allowing murderous regimes to take elegant diplomatic cover.
U.N. Human Rights Council: Still a Sham
