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Just look at the mess in Afghanistan or Iraq and see how the violence has flourished under US occupation.

In Afghanistan the administration has made no effort to establish security beyond the capital of Kabul and Iraq is in the throes of civil war.

The scenario is bound to be repeated in Sudan.

The military may dispatch a few F-16s to Darfur to blast-away at fleeing tribesmen, but the situation on the ground would remain unchanged.

Neither the US nor the UN will do anything to stop the bloodshed in the hinterland.

The eagerness of the UN, and particularly Ambassador John Bolton, appears to be aimed at putting boots on the ground to secure Sudan's lavish oil and natural gas reserves.

If that’s not the case, then why hasn’t the UN intervened in nearby Congo where millions of civilians have been butchered in the last decade?

It’s astonishing how the United Nations plays along with the Bush administration by pandering to their smallest whim.

Humanitarian intervention is a shabby rationale for invasion and does nothing to conceal the self-serving interests of the main players.

Last week’s balloting in the General Assembly illustrates America’s threadbare credibility on a similar issue.

Bolton’s attempt to revamp the UN Human Rights Commission was shot-down by a vo...

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