Sunday, October 18, 2009

So Much For Believing In Human Rights

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan at the Arab League summit in Doha, Qatar, on Monday. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

Obama Drops Plan To Isolate Sudan Leaders -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has formulated a new policy for Sudan that proposes working with that country’s government, rather than isolating it as President Obama had pledged to do during his campaign.

In an interview on Friday, President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, retired, said the policy, to be announced Monday by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, would make use of a mix of “incentives and pressure” to seek an end to the human rights abuses that have left millions of people dead or displaced while burning Darfur into the American conscience.

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My Comment: By bending over backwards to appease the genocidal rulers of the Sudan, President Obama is guaranteeing war in the South of Sudan, and further misery in Darfur.

The excuses that the administration is now making for changing their policy on Sudan are (fill in the blank).

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