Amnesty International Attacks US Action and Inaction
Amnesty International is confused. While they bemoan the actions of the United States to remove an evil dictator from power and for maintaining prisons for the terrorists captured, they are critical of US non-involvement in Darfur. AI needs to make up their minds, do they want the US involved in world affairs or not. CNN has more.
In releasing its 2006 annual report, the human rights watchdog condemned countries such as the United States, China and Russia for focusing on narrowly defined interests, diluting efforts to solve conflicts elsewhere — such as Sudan’s Darfur region.
And then Amnesty International complains that anything the US has to say about the problems in Darfur will not be accepted.
“(The United States) has basically mortgaged its moral authority on the streets of Fallujah and Baghdad — and lost moral authority to speak on this issue,” Khan [Amnesty International’s Secretary General] told AP Television News in regard to Darfur.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Seems to me like these people like to hear the sound of their own voices. Otherwise how could anyone possibly reconcile these two disparate views of how the US should respond?
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