UN Criticizes US Over Human Rights Abuses

The Associated Press reported the United Nations Human Rights Committee has told the US to close its secret prisons. They say this country is violating the terms of a 1966 treaty called the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. United States violations of this agreement violate the rights of detainees and their families. This is one more black eye for America as we surrender the moral high ground.

If we're going to refuse to honor these treaties why don't we simply withdraw from them? It isn't like Bush hasn't done so with other international obligations. What's one more? Oh yes, the symbolic significance of telling the world human rights are no longer important to Americans..... Like they haven't already come to that conclusion over the past six years?