Cynical Nation

It's not "genocide" after all! The European Union says so (emphasis mine)!

Sudan massacres are not genocide, says EU

The EU said yesterday there was widespread violence in the Darfur region of Sudan but the killings were not genocidal, a potentially crucial distinction which underlined its reluctance to intervene.

"We are not in the situation of genocide there," Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said in Brussels after returning from a fact-finding visit to Sudan.

I think that little phrase in italics pretty much says it all. If you define the problem away, then you don't have to do anything about it. Yay! Now we can go back to smoking cigarettes, drinking espresso and condemning the U.S. for being unilateral, and still get home before lunch!

And these are the people we're supposed to give veto power over our right to self-defense? Riiiiiiiiiiiight!