Monday, August 10, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Rick Richman: Explaining the Significance of the Mary Robinson Nomination - '...In an important 7,345-word post (with a 1,700-word follow-up), Catherine Fitzpatrick -- who was at Durban I and watched Robinson’s performance there, and who is both her defender and her critic -- says the nomination was “an effort to deflect criticism of the United States coming furiously from some leftist groups for the U.S. decision not to participate in the follow-up conference in Durban in April.” She concludes that “at the end of the day, the Obama Administration chose Mary Robinson because they felt she was one of their own.”...' [Excellent links there.]
