Considering United State’s support for Israel at least the withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council is honest.

That Donald J Trump is a thoughtless and cruel bully breaking old friendships, alliances, institutions and myths goes without saying but some of these plates needed breaking, such as an exceptional belief in our moral superiority. A belief which reached its zenith with the successful prosecution of a World War against the maximum terrorist Adolf Hitler.  In war, whether hot or cold, one exaggerates the moral turpitude of the other and with Hitler no nuance was required. Unfortunately the cold war that came after was one of ideas rather than deeds where a claim of goodness was neither clear nor relevant. By Vietnam the swing in our as well as the World's perception of our goodness reached the low remarked by Pogo, “we have met the enemy and he is us.”  Thank our President for making it clear that human rights is just an ancillary issue we are willing to include when it doesn’t conflict with our primary pursuit and exclude when not, such as defending Israel’s recent wanton shooting of Palestinians. Considering United State’s support for Israel at least the withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council is honest.