Another Opportunity For The United Nations To Fail

The United States compared the ethnic cleansing in the Sudan to what occurred in Rwanda - and demanded that the UN do something this time.


The U.N. Commission on Human Rights (news - web sites) is due to take up Sudan on Friday, but U.S. ambassador Richard Williamson expressed concern the wording of a planned resolution was too weak.


The United States had initially co-sponsored a text with the European Union (news - web sites), but a new, softer version had emerged from negotiations between the EU and African member states, he said.


"Ten years from today the only thing that will be remembered about the 60th annual Commission is whether we stand up on the ethnic cleansing going on in Sudan," he told journalists.

Of course, they'll screw it up and show the world once again why we can't trust them in Iraq.