I have a piece up elsewhere on NRO today on some of George W. Bush’s United Nations human-rights successes (besides Iraq).

One of many potential sidebars to it: Last weekend there was a heartbreaking piece in The New York Times Magazine about sex slavery here in the U.S. and in North America more generally. The author, both in the piece and in various TV interviews last weekend gives the impression that the Bush administration was pointing fingers at other countries and not cracking down inwardly (there have been other questions raised about the piece, too). But in the course of putting the NRO piece together, I was reminded how forthright the White House and State Department (!) have been about the problem within. The president mentioned it in his general assembly address this fall—that we have our own problem—and, check out the 411 available for the world to see on State’s website. President Bush deserves credit from both the right and left for showing real leadership on this issue, a travesty, really. Miles to go, for sure, but back breaking has commenced.