Eli Lake, Columnist

A Modest Proposal to Troll Geneva: Send in Milo Yiannopoulos

The U.N. Human Rights Council doesn't deserve better.

February 28, 2017 at 5:00 AM EST

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

"Ambassador Milo Yiannopoulos"?
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The U.N. Human Rights Council is modern diplomacy’s punch line.

As it opens its 2017 session in Geneva this week, Donald Trump should treat the council as the joke that it is. One joke deserves another, so here’s mine: Appoint an ambassador who is comically unqualified.

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