Sunday, January 10, 2010
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.
UN Watch: Then: Guardian Newspaper Slammed 'Richard-Richard' Goldstone Inquiry as 'Rubbish Bin' - '...when there was no incentive to skewer Israel, the same Guardian of London once accused Richard Goldstone of running a "much vaunted judicial commission of inquiry" that "failed dismally," and that was a "rubbish bin" used by the South African government; of Goldstone's "disturbing" practice by which he acted with "overt political 'sensitivity'," including his being "at pains to involve the politically distinguished in the conduct of his inquiry"; and of harboring such ambition to succeed Boutros-Boutros Ghali's post as UN Secretary-General, that Goldstone's legal colleagues gave him the nickname of "Richard-Richard."...'
