Djelloul Marbrook

If nightriding bushwhackers and jayhawkers were torching villages, murdering their inhabitants and raping children in Macedonia do you think the august thumbsuckers at the United Nations would whomp up the moral fortitude to intervene in force.

Could the UN possibly exist for any better reason than rescuing human beings from genocide? It would seem the answer depends on the color of the victims. This being so painfully the case, the entire human race must wallow in disgrace.

The people of Darfur in east Africa are being butchered while Big Media, Big Business, Washington and many another despicable world capital would have us believe that the bloviations of various oafs in Manhattan, such as Hugo Chavez and Achmed Achmedinejad, are more important than this monstrous ongoing tragedy.

The Arab street is enraged by a Danish cartoon, Pope Benedict’s hamhandedness, George Bush’s Dodge City mentality, and by a whole smorgasbord of grievances, but it cannot find its voice to condemn the horrific murder of innocent Darfurians by Arab irregulars, the janjaweed.

Mired in racism, choking on their own hypocrisy, the world’s leaders, East and West, cannot manage the decency, the conscience to save Darfur’s innocents.

Where are al-Qaeda’s smarmy fulminators on this particular piece of brutality? It’s a bit too close to home, isn’t it? Sudan, the janjaweed’s benefactor and provocateur, has been quite cozy with al-Qaeda’s two-faced thugs.

Where are the West’s suits with all their hifalutin oratory about human rights and dignity? Spluttering over their caviar, no doubt.

The sick fact is that the Arab World, the West, the subcontinent, and the Far East must go down hand-in-hand to utter ignominy for their odious failure to save their fellow humans in Darfur.

To do nothing about genocide is to condone it.