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To: RealMuLan who wrote (60090)	2/6/2005 4:15:44 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

Nicholas D. Kristof: Bush puts ideology over lives in Sudan Nicholas D. Kristof The New York Times NEW YORK Two weeks ago, President George W. Bush gave an impassioned speech to the world about the need to stand for human freedom. . But this week, administration officials are skulking in the corridors of the United Nations, trying desperately to block a prosecution of Sudanese officials for crimes against humanity. . It's not that Bush sympathizes with the slaughter in Darfur. In fact, I take my hat off to Bush for doing more than most other world leaders to address ethnic cleansing there - even if it's not nearly enough. Bush has certainly done far more than Bill Clinton did during the Rwandan genocide. . But Bush's sympathy for Sudanese parents who are having their children tossed into bonfires shrivels next to his hostility to the organization that the United Nations wants to trust with the prosecution: the International Criminal Court. Administration officials so despise the court that they have become, in effect, the best hope of Sudanese officials seeking to avoid accountability for what Bush himself has called genocide. iht.com

To: RealMuLan who wrote (60090)	2/7/2005 8:38:56 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Up to now, the system works great! the winners have done a much better job in China than those who have been "democratically" elected in the West in their countries. On this issue, no one has to agree with me, but don't preach to me either. It has been said that the most efficient and the most effective form of government is a benign dictatorship. On the other hand, most people will agree, a nasty dictatorship is the worst form of government. A democracy has advantages and disadvantages. Actually, I think democracy would better fit the asian principle of the ying and yang - finding a delicate balance - giving the rulers a mandate from the people to rule - and better able to find harmony in the universe.