Too late

Whenever someone claims I was just as blind to Bill Clinton's faults as they want to be to Duhbya's lack of virtues, I can answer with one word, "Rwanda." He was a President who refused to call obvious genocide by its name, lest he then be obligated to do something about it, obligated morally and by the UN Charter, to which the U.S. is a signatory confirmed by the Senate. Now, we have a President who refuses to call obvious torture what it is.

There is a small difference in favor of each: Clinton did not order the genocide, where Duhbya ordered the torture. But the genocide did kill half a million people, while torture has killed at most a few dozen.

I wonder, will Duhbya repent after he has pardoned all those who executed his unlawful orders?

The price of Iraq

I know the conventional wisdom is that Americans don't give a damn about anything in Africa. Well, white Americans, anyway. OK, white Americans older than college age. (I remember one candlelight march thirty years ago: What's the word? Johannesburg!)

One of the consequences of the dusty quagmire in Iraq is that no one at a principal's level in the American government has time for Darfur.

After the Holocaust, we said, "Never again." Turns out we were rationalizing as a salve for our consciences.

Now, the ADL needs intense negotiations to acknowledge the genocide that Armenians suffered. Bill Clinton failed utterly in Rwanda - by far the largest moral failing of his administration. Communist Vietnam stopped the Khmer Rouge, and that wasn't because they had moral objections.

And the Bushists have failed even to care about the Sudan, with the one small exception of a certain aspirin factory that they can hang around Bill Clinton's neck.