Mugabe Goes to Rome #
June 3rd, 2008 | In Worth Considering
Anne Applebaum is understandably upset that Robert Mugabe is able to safely and easily visit Rome:
It’s hard to think of any other single gesture that would so effectively reveal the ineffectiveness of international institutions in the conduct of both human rights and food-aid policy. Even someone standing atop the dome of St. Peter’s, megaphone in hand, shouting, “The U.N. is useless! The EU is useless!” couldn’t have clarified the matter more plainly.