Oct 17 2009

Major New Appeasement Initiative Set for Monday

Credit to the Washington Post, which reports this story with all the context necessary to demonstrate how truly cynical and pathetic this Nobel laureate-led administration is on the issue of human rights:

After lengthy debate, the Obama administration has settled on a policy toward Sudan that offers a dramatically softer approach than the president had advocated [...]

Oct 15 2009

Human Rights Groups Unhappy With Nobel Laureate’s Sudan Appeasement

The Washington Post reports:

Human rights groups and lawmakers are ratcheting up pressure on the Obama administration this week over its approach to ending violence in Sudan, saying the White House and the State Department are treading too cautiously in dealing with the government in Khartoum.
A coalition of U.S.-based advocates focused on the Darfur region — [...]

Oct 9 2009

Nobel Laureate Knocked by Human Rights Groups

Eli Lake reports:

Human rights groups are beginning to question President Obama’s commitment to their issue as the administration engages authoritarian regimes, retains the option of sending terrorist suspects abroad to places where they might be tortured and puts off a presidential meeting with [fellow Nobel laureate and actual deity incarnate --.ed] the Dalai Lama….
Tom Malinowski, [...]

Sep 28 2009

Obama Foreign Policy Goes From Carrots to Cookies

Scott Gration, Obama’s gaffe-prone special envoy to Sudan, boils it down:

“We’ve got to think about giving out cookies,” said Gration, who was appointed in March. “Kids, countries, they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement.”
This from the man who took it upon himself to declare the genocide in Darfur over — mere [...]