Its a fantastic decision (especially even from the standpoint of making a stand).
The middle east is full of small countries who have engaged in sustained abuses of human rights, and there are a lot of them, all with the same voting power as nations hundreds of times their size.
Remember the abduction & torture system they ran for years during the Afghanistan&Iraq war? They indeed better don't complain too much about 'failure to hold human rights abusers accountable'.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 25.1 ms ] threadHow is it that’s Saudi Arabia, a country with an abysmal human rights record, is granted a seat in the UNHRC?
If any other Asia region country campaigned for a position Saudi Arabia would have lost.
The middle east is full of small countries who have engaged in sustained abuses of human rights, and there are a lot of them, all with the same voting power as nations hundreds of times their size.
I guess with the whole child separation debacle the US should currently be glad about that....