The Obama administration said late Saturday it would participate in planning for a UN conference on racism dubbed 'Durban 2' despite concerns the meeting will be used by Arab nations and others to demonize Israel.I say we pass the hat... and buy a one-way ticket for Dr Dawg...
Canada has already said it will not participate, maintaining the meeting will promote racism and not combat it.
"We are tempted to compare the first World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) -- organized by the United Nations in Durban, South Africa in 2001 -- to a circus. But that would be unfair to circuses."**********
"Far from a forum promoting tolerance among peoples and nations, as it was billed, the WCAR became a festival for hateful screeds against Israel and the West by some of the most repressive regimes in the world, cheered on by NGOs from Europe and North America."
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...in the "Hope and Change" department... when the Saudis start to make you look like a piker...
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has sacked two powerful religious officials in a wide ranging shake-up of the cabinet and other government posts.*
One of the dismissed men was the head of the controversial religious police force. The other was the country's most senior judge.
The king also appointed the country's first-ever female minister and replaced the head of the central bank.