The US officials are complicit in the formation of a New World Order. They would not accept the humiliation imposed upon them, if it wasn't for public consumption back home. It makes good press to see some individual suffering ridicule for standing up against the latest UN initiative. Just as we saw the administration stand up to the ICC, then capitulate when we got a one year exemption.
Anybody that had any regard for our sovereignty would have told them to shove it forever. This has happened time after time and is no accident. The socialist technique of incremental advances toward world government is being used to keep the restless natives subdued in their quest for freedom from a world dictatorship.