Saturday, October 17, 2009
Priceless stuff from Marty Peretz, who like me voted for Obama and strongly supported him but who is becoming disappointed and annoyed about certain matters - so I'll quote this bit from The New Republic - do read the rest:
"...Obama also likes to engage. Actually, engaging may be his favorite activity. He's engaged Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, the International Olympic Committee, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Palestinians, Skip Gates and that Cambridge cop ... Only with Skip and Sergeant Crowley did he reach some agreement, though it was lubricated by beer, which wouldn't have worked with the king. (You know which king). With every one of these others, save the professor and the policeman, he has flopped, and the American people are catching on. Oops, I just read that the administration is about to try a liaison with Sudan after not having tried anything real against Sudan. "Save Darfur." That was a fantasy. Another betrayal. What does my respected and intellectually meticulous human rights crusader Samantha Power say about this?"
Well I too would like to know what Samantha Power thinks about all this. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her book about genocide or rather our apparent inability to stop genocide, and now it looks like we're washing our hands of Darfur. However we wish to "engage" with the UNHRC with its stellar track record of defending human rights as long as the supposed violator thereof is Israel.
If you're a victim of somebody else, forgetaboutit.
Now, UNHRC have been dealing with the Goldstone Report, which does in fact blame Hamas for deliberately attacking civilians and therefore possibly commiting Crimes Against Humanity, yet only the Israelis are condemned by the UN for said crimes even though as Goldstone himself says, the report proves nothing and Hamas indeed was accused.
But then who cares right?
Forgetaboutit.
"Egad," says Tuck. "I always thought he was a bright boy." You voted for OBAMA? God help us all. What happened to your con-manometer?
Note the author of this entry. :)
Phew.