Sudan: a “cruel hoax”?
Excellent opinion piece in yesterday’s Guardian. Jonathan Steele, still reporting from Sudan, making a sad point about the British and American’s seemingly positive response to the Darfur crisis:
A cruel hoax is being perpetrated on the desperate people of Darfur. With their constant demands for UN troops to go to Sudan’s western region as the only way to protect civilians, George Bush and Tony Blair are raising hopes in a grossly irresponsible way.
It is not just that the Khartoum government rejects the idea of UN troops. More important, Bush and Blair know that, even if Khartoum were to back down, they will not be sending US or British troops to replace the African Union (AU) force. Nor will other European governments.
Why does this matter? Because hundreds of thousands of displaced villagers who sit in miserable camps across Darfur are under the impression that European soldiers will soon be riding over the hill to save them.
All the rhetoric, all the promises then, mean nothing. For some reason I’m surprised, but I know I shouldn’t be.
Click here to read Jonathan Steele’s piece on commentisfree
Sudanwatch and the Hell On Earth blog have also picked up on it
Never trust a fox…
Can you believe it? “Fair and balanced” journalism has been around now for a whole decade. Yes! And it’s flown by so quickly!
Because according to the Media Guardian, the illustrious, the informative, the down right shagging brilliant Fox News Channel is officially 10 years old this week.
That’s right. The channel that showed us we were wrong about Bush, that Saddam was behind 9/11, and brought us such objective and non-partisan reporters such as Bill O’Reilly and John Gibson has reached double figures.
And if you’ve somehow missed the bright illuminating light that Fox News shines on our world, watch this hilarious piece of footage from the summer’s Israel/Lebanon conflict. If you haven’t got 8 minutes and 32 seconds spare, just watch the last 30 seconds…words fail me.
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