Bush to meet with al-Bashir

This morning the Washington Post worries that President Bush isn’t being hard enough on Sudan for their behavior against the residents in Darfur;

Sometime in the next few weeks, a special envoy of President Bush plans to meet with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, whose government sheltered Osama bin Laden and pursued a scorched-earth policy in southern Sudan that resulted in more than 2 million deaths.

Bashir’s government has been accused by Bush of participating in a “genocide” in Darfur, the only U.S. government use of such a strong accusation. Yet Richard S. Williamson’s visit to Khartoum follows a series of direct contacts by senior Bush administration officials with the Sudanese president, including Secretaries of State Colin L. Powell and Condoleezza Rice, Rice’s deputies, and several special presidential envoys.

Bush has spoken to or exchanged letters with Bashir on numerous occasions, underscoring how White House policy has departed from his pointed public call to shun talks with radical tyrants and dictators.

Of course, the Washington Post totally ignored the Darfur emergency during the previous administration. The only news we got of the situation there was from Christian missionaries because the “main stream” press didn’t figure anything that happened in Africa was important enough for the Clinton Administration since they did so poorly in Somalia.

Things like Darfur are more in line with the UN’s charter, though,, rather than the US policy. But, the UN is too busy getting their armed forces laid according to the Gateway Pundit;

We’re from the UN and we’re here to help.

The BBC reported:

Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity.
Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help look after them, says Save the Children.

The most shocking aspect of this abuse is that most of it goes unreported and unpunished, a new report argues, with children too scared to speak out.

The UN has said it welcomes the report, which it will study closely.

Yeah, like they studied the report on the oil for food program.

The world is supposedly enraged because we “unilaterally” dealt with Saddam Hussein, yet they expect us to unilaterally deal with Kosovo, Bosnia, Sudan and now the Sudan.

Category: Foreign Policy, Media, Terror War, United Nations