[antimedia] antimedia: People are dying in Africa....

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People are dying in Africa....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1147143431.shtml


   ....and the liberals [1]have finally noticed. Not that they'll do
   anything about it. Liberals are all about hand-wringing and platitudes
   without action to back them up. None of the messy "nation-building"
   and "unilateral action" for them.
   So is the UN, as Mark Steyn so adroitly points out.

     If you think the case for intervention in Darfur depends on whether
     or not the Chinese guy raises his hand, sorry, you're not being
     serious. The good people of Darfur have been entrusted to the
     legitimacy of the UN for more than two years and it's killing them.
     In 2004, after months of expressing deep concern, grave concern,
     deep concern over the graves and deep grave concern over whether
     the graves were deep enough, Kofi Annan took decisive action and
     appointed a UN committee to look into what's going on. Eventually,
     they reported back that it's not genocide.
     Thank goodness for that. Because, as yet another Kofi-appointed UN
     committee boldly declared, "genocide anywhere is a threat to the
     security of all and should never be tolerated". So fortunately
     what's going on in the Sudan isn't genocide. Instead, it's just
     hundreds of thousands of corpses who happen to be from the same
     ethnic group, which means the UN can go on tolerating it until
     everyone's dead, at which point the so-called "decent left" can
     support a "multinational" force under the auspices of the Arab
     League going in to ensure the corpses don't pollute the water
     supply.

   The situation in Darfur, as tragic as it is, puts the left in a really
   uncomfortable position. What's the plausible argument for "invading" a
   sovereign power that isn't threatening anyone but its own people? The
   argument that can get them off the hook of Sadaam's Iraq? The argument
   that distinguishes the dying in Darfur from the Kurds and Shia in Iraq
   who died by the hundreds of thousands at the hand of Saddam? (Hat tip
   to [2]Austin Bay.)

References

   1. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19056736-7583,00.html
   2. http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=1080