Unbelievable, unreal...

... and perhaps, unnecessary?

The United Nations has consistently fallen under a critical eye from yours truly. While no one, not even John "Damn I Love My Moustache" Bolton, is tough enough to offer an alternative, the international organization remains all the world has when it comes to a global community of nations, supposedly tasked with maintaining, "... international peace and security," or so says Article 1 of the United Nations Charter.

With that in mind, no one can question that the crimes against humanity being committed in the Sudan, and allegedly by instruments of the Sudanese state, constitute such a threat. The humanitarian crisis is appalling, and the conflict threatens (or has already) spilled over into neighbouring African states.

That said, and following the conclusion by the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court that enough evidence has been collected to formally charge the lead perpetrators of said crimes against humanity, the newly "reformed" United Nationas Human Rights Council on Tuesday was to adopt a resolution holding the Khartoum regime accountable for their role in the atrocities.

Instead, the Council turned its back on any hopes of gaining international respect and capital by refusing to accept a motion put forward by the European Union and Canada identifying the Sudanese government as a lead perpetrator in the crisis. Not only did the council (why bother using a capital "c"?) decide to pass a more watered-down version of the motion, it then refocused its attention on many of its members' favourite pastime - holding only one government in the world to task for human rights violations: Israel.

I loath having to agree with various right wing bizzerkohs south of the border but following this abject failure of the UN to (yet again) credibly address global human rights violations, maybe Chef Boyardee Bolton has been right all along... I truly hope not.