A Tangled Web

DITHERING IN DARFUR.



This is an excellent post by Aaron over at Free Will on the utter futility of the UN farce in Sudan. Have a good read of it. I really liked these excerpts;



"Sanctions aren't "the last instrument". They're not an instrument at all. They're a passive crutch, a crutch that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, mostly children, by disease and starvation for 12 years before the U.S., the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland put boots on the ground to end the regime that brought the sanctions down on Iraq in the first place. People want to send thousands of "peacekeepers" to the country, but for how long? Forever? To sit around engaging in pedophiliac sex slavery until Khartoum finds Buddha dancing in their desk drawers and decides to give peace a chance, or at least pretends to, so they can resume the slaughter as soon as the peacekeepers pack up? Why is the "international community" hell bent on doing absolutely nothing of substance? Or is it just that they don't really care, but can sleep at night by putting on this show?"



I can't believe that the UN is repeating all the errors of Rwanda and the international media gives every impression of sitting back and giving vague nods of approval!!!



Aaron goes on to make the vital point however that "The United States can't clean up every mess in the world, nor do we have that responsibility. It's not a burden that any free nation carries alone. We like cleaning up messes, but in just the last three years we've stepped up to bring about regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan, with 20,000 troops in Afghanistan and 130,000 in Iraq fighting Jihadists, there's another 80,000 in South Korea and Japan to keep a lid on the horrific hellhole that the UN didn't finish off in the 50's, not to mention the dozens of piddly commitments Clinton has gotten us into. We simply don't have the resources to take action in the Sudan by ourselves."



He's right! The much vaunted "International community" should step up to the plate but it can't because the UN and EU are institutionally dysfunctional. Thousands more will die in Darfur, Kofi will wring his hands, and the media will continue to speak no evil of an organisation that is so rotten that the US, UK and other authentic democratic nations should leave it immediately.