Was drawing up human rights really such a good idea?

Anyone who questions the existence of universal human rights can count on outrage. Yet that's exactly what I'm going to do here.

In September 1994, US troops invaded Haiti. The violent Haitian military junta was overthrown. The United Nations took over the administration of the country.

There was a UN resolution denouncing “systematic violations of civil liberties” by the regime. The military regime had come to power three years earlier in a coup. Thousands of Haitians were killed…