Darfur - World hypocrisy

America has been condemned the world over for intervening in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, to stop crimes against humanity. The world cry is always the same, the US must go through the world's governing body - the UN. This despite things like the oil for food scandal, UN peacekeepers raping the people they are suppose to be protecting, failing to stop genocide and failing to stop the proliferation of WMDs.

Now comes this article in the Financial Times.

White House quiet as Darfur killings go on

So why isn't the FT crying to the UN?

Inside the UN, the Bush administration faces considerable resistance from China, the main customer for Sudan's oil exports, and Russia, Sudan's main provider of weapons and aircraft. US officials complain that France also opposes an oil embargo, in spite of recent harmony with the US over Syria and Lebanon.

Hey, those three names ring a bell. China, Russia and France are the three countries at the heart of the UN oil for food scandal. Imagine that!

Well, FT, why isn't your headline about the worlds governing body, the UN, failing to do something? The world is always calling Bush a cowboy and unilateralist. Are you now suggesting Bush should bypass the UN and act unilaterally?

The FT points this out:

But during the discussion Mr Rusesabagina warned Mr Bush that the current situation in western Sudan's Darfur region was "exactly" what happened in Rwanda 11 years ago.

And pray tell who was in charge of that genocide? The UN under none other than the current UN secretary general - Koffi Annan.

It's high time for this bullshit to stop. You can't have it both way folks; you either go after the UN for failing to do its job or you support the US when she acts unilaterally. Actually, you should do both.

ITRZ has this:

Not England, not the EU. Not China, the number one importer of Sudanese oil; not Russia, Sudan's premier weapons provider. Not even France--well, of course not even France. No, when trouble--serious, this-is-genocide trouble--erupts in the world, who do you call? Not England, not the EU, not China...

That ol' hegemonic, imperialistic, neo-colonial, Kyoto Protocol ignoring environment destroying war-mongering--did I say racist?--globalizing rogue nation, the United States of America. Let's hope the sheriff exerts some authority.

Why? They'll just condemn us anyway. Look how they criticized us over the tsunami relief.
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