The Heritage Foundation looks at the “Report of the United States of America,” which was delivered to the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights the other day.
The U.S. report is revealing of how the current administration views the American people and America’s place in the world. The first section of the report (entitled “A more perfect union, a more perfect world”) begins by quoting the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and Obama White House documents, includingPresident Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Though presented as coherent and harmonious thoughts, the intellectual inconsistency among these documents is striking.
Whereas the Declaration and the Constitution assert American independence and a realistic assessment of human nature, the U.S. UPR report declares that America’s international role is to help “build a world in which universal rights give strength and direction to the nations, partnerships, and institutions that can usher us toward a more perfect world, a world characterized by, as President Obama has said, ‘a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual.’” With this in mind, the White House, cannot be satisfied with imperfection at home in America. Addressed to an international audience, the report contains many statements of dissatisfaction with America’s record,
Obama, and the people he surrounds himself with, don’t seem think very highly of America do they? You’d think that these people, who at this moment in time have the power to represent our country to foreign leaders and institutions like the U.N., would have more position things to say about our country.
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