By Ruth Wedgwood
... The residents of the
38th floor have often blamed operational disasters on U.N. member states. After
the debacles in Rwanda and Srebrenica, there were long investigations of how to
prevent another such mistake. But going to Tehran is a political calamity that
will be blamed only on the secretary general himself.
— Ruth Wedgwood
is a law professor and member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on Law and
National Security. She served for eight years as the U.S. member of the United
Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva and New York, and directed the Council
on Foreign Relations’ Diplomatic Roundtable on the United Nations.
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