> The US scarcely ever even ratifies enabling conventions that put some teeth into the #LetterFromSantaClaus. One example is the Convention on the #RightsOfTheChild. It has been ratified by all countries other than the #US and #Somalia— which has no functioning government.
https://chomsky.info/20091029/
#LetterToSantaClaus #UD #UniversalDeclaration #HumanRights

> #USAmbassador #JeaneKirkpatrick, recently honored by #CondoleezzaRice as one of the stellar figures of American diplomacy. For #Kirkpatrick, the socioeconomic provisions of the #UD are “a #LletterToSantaClaus… Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of `entitlements,’ which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.”
#UnitedNations #UniversalDeclaration #HumanRights #LetterFromSantaClaus #NoamChomsky in 2009 the #NewMillenium