Darfur Deteriorates

While Emperor Bush fiddles with how to save face when his entire Administration has been repudiated by the American people, the situation in Darfur is disintegrating. Read this update from The Christian Science Monitor:

Sudanese Government Blocks Aid and Journalists

History will record the United States and the West as arrogant bystanders, unwilling to invest as much time in halting a genocide as they do in propping up failed regimes that promise oil or other military leverage in exchange for death to their enemies. We are political prostitutes, selling our name, our legitimacy, even the lives of our noble service men and women for a sense of entitlement unearned by the politicans who deluded the masses into voting for them based on ridiculous sideshow issues.

We are a failed experiment in might makes right. The United States has become the archetypal preening buffoon, mesmerized by their own power and prettiness to the point they just sit in an illusion and fondle themselves. Even Tony Blair has begun the long, slow road of recovery of dignity for his sycophantic behaviour.