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- The fracas in the Middle East can only be described as insane. I think the Israelis and Hezbollah have lost their doggone minds. Can’t they be airlifted to some remote desert and left there to sort out their issues without involving innocent civilians? And that mentality of “we won’t stop because they started is” is juvenile to the extreme. Really. 400+ dead? For what?!!!
- The United Nations as usual is proving to be a well oiled talking machine. As people are dying left right and center, I have no doubt they are in meetings and deliberations deciding on the semantics of what is happening in the Middle East. I mean, did they ever resolve whether what was happening in Darfur was genocide or not? Meetings, workshops, sessions, etc will be held for weeks and weeks. Cakes will be eaten and coffee will be drunk. Resolutions and statements will be passed. One of them I feel sure will read as follows:
The United Nations strongly condemns the
unfortunate goings on in the Middle East.
Personally, “we condemn…” has always struck me as being a quintessentially bullshit statement of absolutely no value whatsoever. I mean, what changes before and after it is made?
Lethargy, after all, has always been the UN’s strong point. And the African Union is learning fast. They’re still meeting over Darfur x years later (where x is a large number). I have a lengthy post on this unbelievably bureaucratic shadow boxing entity that I hope to get round to posting soon.
Just you wait. They will shed crocodile tears as they did after Kosovo, Rwanda and are doing now over Darfur. Words like “never again” will come from gentlemen and ladies whose faces will be twisted in real agony.
- Watching the Kibaki government shamelessly make use of state resources to boost their preferred candidates to the skies just goes to illustrate that the more things change the more they stay the same
- Women, as usual, were the losers in these elections. I for one think the fewer Maina Kamandas and Fred Gumos we have and the more Wangari Mathais and Charity Ngilus we have the more effective that bumbling house that is parliament will be
AOB
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