QsOTD

Despite the mullahs' long-time repression of women, the newest member of the UN's Commission on Woman's Rights is . . . Iran. And, as Jennifer Rubin observes at Commentary:

The U.S. couldn’t muster a word of opposition -- not even call for a vote. That would be because . . . why? Because our policy is not to confront and challenge the brutal regime for which rape and discrimination are institutionalized policies. No, rather, we are in the business of trying to ingratiate ourselves, and making the U.S. as inoffensive as possible to the world’s thugocracies. We’d no sooner object to Iran on the UN Commission on the Status of Women than we would leave the UN Council on Human Rights. It is what this administration does and how they envision raising our status in the world.

Victor Davis Hanson correctly concludes:

This administration has developed a bad habit of talking tough and bullying friendly constitutional states while reaching out to hostile and bad-acting dictatorships. In general, that is unwise foreign policy. In terms of nuclear politics it is dangerous beyond belief.

It's also inevitable, says Daniel at Venezuela News and Views:

[The U.S. is] entering the world of welfare state where business is essential to support its cost. Europeans have thus become masters at making deals with all sorts of unsavory regimes because bills need to get paid and taxes to pay them are collected from these business deals. The Obama administration took over a country in crisis and is using expensive means to find its way out. Europeanization of its foreign policy is almost a given.

(via reader Marc)