I Guess It's Not Genocide When Africans Are Conducting It

Kofi Annan is an utter disgrace:

The United Nations took another step in its long road to irrelevancy on January 31 with a report announcing that the Sudanese government was not conducting a genocidal campaign in the Darfur region. It agreed that there were indeed mass killings of civilians, torture, rape, pillaging, possible war crimes and perhaps crimes against humanity, but there was no evidence of genocide.

"Some of these violations are very likely to amount to war crimes and given the systematic and widespread pattern of many of the violations, they would also amount to crimes against humanity," the report said.

The report hung its conclusion on the belief that there was no "genocidal intent" by the Sudanese government to kill off a particular group on the grounds of ethnicity, religion or any other reason, a rather dubious finding. No such policy was implemented, the report maintains, by the government, either directly or through militia groups under its control.

Such an assertion comes as a surprise to anyone with basic familiarity with Sudan. Although the Sudanese government denies it, it's widely believed that it supports an Arab militia known as the Janjaweed -- the group chiefly culpable for causing the region's strife -- in an effort to put down a rebellion by non-Arab African groups. Experts believe that the Janjaweed is attempting to exterminate three tribes so that they can take their land.

This is of course what the Sudanese were up to back in the 80s when they took advantage of a drought to create a humanitarian disaster. Perhaps Bob Geldof should have spent less time browbeating Maggie Thatcher and more time shedding light on the inhuman actions of the government of Sudan.

I thought that after Clinton apologized for watching the Tutsis get hacked to death in Rwanda on Kofi's watch this wasn't supposed to happen again.

This is why the Left can never be trusted with U.S. foreign policy. They place their faith in corrupt institutions, morally bankrupt leaders, and empty words.