"The United Nations has again proved its worth as an unfailing barometer of human rights-though not in the way the world body intended.
It came in Thursday's 189-2 vote against the trade embargo on Cuba, blamed by regime apologists for most of Cuba's many ills. Israel alone sided with the U.S. The resolution on the embargo pops up every year.
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This year U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley tried something different. Instead of simply voting no, the U.S. tried to inject some balance by proposing several amendments that highlighted the many egregious outrages of the Cuban regime.
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People can come down on different sides about the merits of an economic embargo. But when the U.N. condemns the U.S. while giving Cuba a pass, Turtle Bay reveals its own moral bankruptcy."