A NOTE FROM A MORAL AUTHORITY (ARAB NEWS)

03/06/2009


A NOTE FROM A MORAL AUTHORITY (ARAB NEWS)


It would be shameful If I did not take due notice of the moral outrage exhibited by the Arab News on line in the case of the warrants issued for the arrest of Omar Bashir, President of Sudan.

"The decision by the International Criminal Court of Justice to issue an arrest warrant for President Omar Bashir of Sudan on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur reeks of hypocrisy. What about the war crimes committed by George W. Bush and Tony Blair in Iraq and the war crimes committed by Ehud Olmert and the rest of the Israeli government in Gaza? What about the war crimes of Ariel Sharon in Lebanon? Where are the arrest warrants for them?"


http://arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=119936&d=6&m=3&y=2009


In the same day news items there is one about the "Arab lawmakers condemn the warrants against Bashir", and one about why "West should not give up on Pakistan", as well the article questions the lack of success of Muslims in resolving their own problems.

In my mind, I have difficulty keeping things separated, so all of these articles get connected.
Why are Bush and Blair not indicted you ask? Who were the biggest supporters of the Egyptian and the Saudi regimes I wonder. Is it not biting the hand that feeds you .
I have railed against the stupid US polices for a long time, as pertaining to the Middle East and the Islamic worlds. And so much is true that US and Britain are both supporters of murderous and oppressive regimes elsewhere in the region. I was against our invasion of Iraq as well as the call of Bush for democracy in Pakistan which upturned the apple cart there.

I smiled though when I read the litany of charges against the various African regimes, and the discussion of the cleptocracy in Pakistan, by all mean the list is not inclusive so it sounds like that pot calling the kettle black.