President Obama's hemorrhaging foreign policy is creating an increasingly embarrassing mess at the United Nations. A four-week session of the U.N.'s top human rights body, the Human Rights Council, ended in Geneva on March 28, 2014, with a series of humiliating defeats for the president's calling card of indiscriminate engagement. Here are some lowlights:
-The Council was unable to make a single decision, resolution or even collective statement about the Russian invasion and violation of human rights in Ukraine.
-The Council adopted five times more resolutions condemning Israel than any other UN member state (and nothing at all for 184 of 193 countries).
-The Council adopted a resolution intended to target the United States on "remotely piloted aircraft or drones..."
-The Council adopted another Islamic group attack on free speech. The phony title of the resolution was: "combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons based on religion or belief."
-Losses aimed at Western pocketbooks included: a Cuban-led resolution on "the effects of foreign debt," and an African-led resolution on "non-repatriation of funds of illicit origin."
-Iran led a resolution on "enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights." The European Union joined consensus "in a spirit of compromise." The Obama administration did the same.