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US at fault for not stopping Colombo's abuses- Boston Globe

Asserting that there have been several disturbing examples of the US national interest standing in the way of actions to defend human rights, Saturday s Boston Globe editorial blames the United States and Europe for failing to do enough to intervene, asserting that the United States and its European allies have gone only so far in trying to halt the Darfur genocide, or the Sri Lankan government's abuses of civilians in its counter-insurgency war against the Tamil Tigers

The paper is optimistic that there is now an assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, and President-elect Barack Obama is also expected to have someone in his National Security Council responsible for human rights, but cautions that it is about how willing the governments of the world are to protect vulnerable populations from their own governments.

The editorial expresses hope that Obama will stretch the definition of the national interest to include a panoply of actions, short of war, to defend universal human rights.

Oh man.. I just came in from blowing snow for 2 hrs. We got walloped yesterday -10 and we have about good 8-9 inches of fresh snow to blow through. Had a quick shot of spiked espresso with my Italian neighbor and made quick work of the white stuff before the second shot. The espresso machine is now set up in the Garage BTW :)))

Really?????....wooooow!..... Russell Peters was waiting for that book... He is gonna use some of those comments in his shows ! :D:D:D

Berty anna,

kusumaban thaan mattakalappu entru enakkum sonnavar. :)))