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07/08/2004: "At least they're consistent"
One of the most popular slogans among leftists opposed to US policy in Iraq is "No blood for oil." According to the BBC, France has again demonstrated its disagreement with that slogan, as long as the blood is supplied by others:
"In Darfur, it would be better to help the Sudanese get over the crisis so their country is pacified rather than sanctions which would push them back to their misdeeds of old," junior Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier told French radio.
France led opposition to US moves at the UN over Iraq. As was the case in Iraq, it also has significant oil interests in Sudan.
Mr Muselier also dismissed claims of "ethnic cleansing" or genocide in Darfur.
"I firmly believe it is a civil war and as they are little villages of 30, 40, 50, there is nothing easier than for a few armed horsemen to burn things down, to kill the men and drive out the women," he said.
Best estimates at this point are that over 10,000 people have been killed and over a million made refugees as Arab gunmen have swept through village after village in Darfur, often with government connivance. But as long as the black gold keeps flowing, France will not stoop to the level of those concerned about black African Muslim lives, any more than they stooped to caring about Iraqi lives. Or Bosnian lives. Or Rwandan lives. Or...
(Thanks to LGF for the link.)
