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U.N.: "Hey, don't worry!!"

(Posted by BNJ)

"There's no 'genocide' in Darfur," says the United Nations, "only 'mass murder, torture and rape!'"

Wow, that's a relief! I feel better already, knowing the 70,000 people who've been slaughtered by the Janjaweed militia weren't victims of "genocide." You may think it's merely an issue of semantics, but it's actually a terribly important distinction. See, since it's not "genocide," we don't have to, you know, actually do anything about it! Hooray, problem solved by defining it away!

You know what's really scary about this whole story? It's that half this country, including a man who damned near became our president, continue to take the corrupt, incompetent, hypocritical assholes at Turtle Bay seriously. I think it's long past time to tell the U.N. to go to hell, but since that isn't going to happen, can we at least stop pretending that the U.N. is capable of conferring any kind of legitimacy at all to our foreign policy?

Posted by BNJ on February 1, 2005 09:23 AM | |Discuss

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It's genocide, if you ask me. Semantics aside, this situation, IMHO, is more deserving of military action by the U.S. than Iraq was.

Since Pres. Bush's main reason for shedding American blood (WMD) was shown to be a sham, it seems the Administration stressed "regime change" as being needed in Iraq to prevent more Hussein atrocities. If this was their rationale, they should not hesitate in intervening in Sudan.

Posted by: Tracy Miller | February 1, 2005 12:51 PM

It's genocide, if you ask me. Semantics aside, this situation, IMHO, is more deserving of military action by the U.S. than Iraq was.

Since Pres. Bush's main reason for shedding American blood (WMD) was shown to be a sham, it seems the Administration stressed "regime change" as being needed in Iraq to prevent more Hussein atrocities. If this was their rationale, they should not hesitate in intervening in Sudan.

Posted by: Tracy Miller | February 1, 2005 01:06 PM

You would think that if I could put together a sentence, I could avoid double posting. Sorry about that.

Posted by: Tracy Miller | February 1, 2005 01:08 PM

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