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Australia to UNSC: Don't let Libya be next Darfur
2011-03-17
SYDNEY – Australia's foreign minister urged the U.N. Security Council not to let the crisis in Libya become another failure of the international community to save innocent people.
A little late for that, isn't it...
Australia is strongly backing a U.N.-backed no-fly zone over Libya to stop airstrikes by Moammar Gadhafi's forces against an uprising.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd cited the genocide in Rwanda and ethnic violence in the Balkans and Sudan's Darfur region as failures of the U.N. to uphold its responsibility to protect innocents.

"Let's look at the U.N. Look back to Rwanda: fail. Look back at Darfur: fail. Look back at the Balkans: partial fail," Rudd told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television Wednesday.

"I would hope the international community would learn from history, because in a month's time, two months' time, three months' time, if for whatever reason Gaddafi begins to prevail and we see the large-scale butchery of Libyan civilians, I am deeply concerned about how the international community will reflect on itself," he said.
The 'international community' lacks a conscience and won't care. The Euros will get the oil flowing again and that's what matters to them. Obama will play another round of golf; that's what matters to him. The Libyan rebels will be hunted down and crucified; that's what matters to Qadaffy.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Rwanda: fail. Look back at Darfur: fail.
Great, I love that he not only listens to internet memes, but thinks them appropriate to use in international diplomacy.
Posted by: gromky   2011-03-17 19:23  

#6  Yeah, Kevni is angling for one of those sweet, sweet UN sinecures, looks like.
Posted by: mojo   2011-03-17 17:11  

#5  And Kevin Rudd does not speak for Australia. He doesn't even speak for the Government, despite him being Foreign Minister. This is him grandstanding on the world stage, something dear to his heart, while sabotaging Julia Gillard as Prime Minister.
I am repulsed by these clowns. In a couple of years they have debauched my country's politics.
Posted by: Grunter   2011-03-17 16:31  

#4  The only way to keep whatever side from winning from filling mass graves is to put boots on the ground. A lot of boots. You want to put 500,000 troops in Libya Australia? No? The US sure as hell isn't going to. How about you EU? No?

Then all of you shut your foot intake device/bullshit spewer and worry about problems you can fix. You can't save or regulate everyone and the Libyans will have to work things out on their own.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-03-17 12:16  

#3  I am deeply concerned about how the international community will reflect on itself

That's an easy one. The international community, whatever the hell that is, will blame America for not intervening, unless America does intervene, in which case the international community will blame America for intervening. And they'll work the Juices in there somehow.
Posted by: Matt   2011-03-17 09:18  

#2  Beware of taking Kevin Rudd's advice: his agenda is the advancement of Kevin Rudd. Something suitably magnificent at the UN preferably, otherwise his old-failed!- job as Prime Minister of Australia will have to do.
Posted by: Grunter   2011-03-17 08:18  

#1  another failure of the international community to save innocent people

Tell me how many Libyans disapprove of 3 months old Hadas Fogel butchered in her crib, and I'll tell you how many of them are "people", let alone "innocent".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-03-17 05:15  

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