The World Watches

The vicious rogue regimes of Africa and the Middle East that prey on their people and from time to time run amok destroying lives, are routinely condemned by the United Nations, the Security Council, Ban Ki-moon who theatrically wrings his hands in despair, and world leaders. The institution of the United Nations is geared and dedicated to upholding the rights of people to live decent and free lives under just administrations.

This they do through the many pronouncements that issue from that august body. When issues arise in places like Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea and Libya, the United Nations condemns the violence and issues a call to immediate cessation of that violence and restoration of order and good government. The United Nations Human Rights Commission sits in judgement.

Overlooking the distracting events taking place in Sudan, Georgia, Belarus, Pakistan, Iran, and dedicating themselves to covering the backsides of those among them whose human rights violations are never to be impolitely mentioned, directing attention rather to the singular world state deserving of condemnation and the issuance of resolutions denouncing the human rights violations committed by Israel.

The African Union and those that represent North, South, West and East African regions do nothing to intervene when chaos and mass destruction ensues due to internal unrest in one country after another. The Arab League takes steps to temporarily expel one of its member-states when, for example, the Bad Boy of the Arab League bombs and strafes his people in Libya.

It is, in these circumstances, left to the members of the developed world community to step in. If they dare. If they dare do more than fulminate and denounce. Kuwait's invasion by Iraq represented a true anomaly in the organized response led by the United States, its Western supporters and members of the Arab League.

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, whose defenders are now isolated to the regimes in South America whose socialist ethos they all share, has been rejected by most of the world, and Britain wrings its conscience over having sold Libya the riot-control ammunition it now uses to shatter the lives of its people. Russia may also be slightly perturbed at its huge munitions sales in arms to Libya, but then perhaps not.

NATO, the European Union, the United States and Canada fret about their verbal responses to the carnage being played out in Libya as forces still loyal to Gadhafi slaughter those civilians still continuing their vocal opposition to his brutally tyrannical rule. What can they do other than that? Consider an invasion?

So that Africa and the Middle East can surmise that it is the country's oil resources they wish to capture and to colonize and enslave Libyans under European rule? Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain; in all those countries it is the people who have spoken and their rulers paid the price.

Libya's tyrant is not quite as obliging, intent on dredging the last drop of blood on the field of battle, intent on his lunatic will prevailing.