Mundo de Hipócritas, Medrosos e Egoístas

«Just two years ago, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to make human rights an unprecedented centerpiece of his foreign policy, vowing in his victory speech "to reach out to all those in the world ... who are persecuted by tyrants and dictators." And for a time, his agenda seemed to be off to a good start. Sarkozy chose as foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, cofounder of Doctors Without Borders and long one of Europe's most eloquent proponents of humanitarian action. They created a new international human rights cabinet -- the world's first -- and installed a 30-year-old Muslim woman of Senegalese origin, Rama Yade, to run it.
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This from someone who had spent the last 40 years trying to save civilians caught up in nasty wars from Biafra to Darfur, a man whose legacy includes a Nobel Peace Prize for the organization he founded to act on just those principles he was now renouncing. Even the much-celebrated human rights cabinet was "a mistake," Kouchner said. In June, Sarkozy eliminated Yade's job altogether and shifted her to secretary of state for sports.
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In the preceding months, Kouchner (shown at right in 1981) had registered a series of defeats. He had failed to convince Sarkozy of the need for strong European intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's civil war, despite the threat of a mounting civilian death toll.

He had lost a diplomatic battle in the United Nations after the Burmese regime refused to let Western aid into the country following Hurricane Nargis. Kouchner had wanted the U.N. Security Council to specifically cite Burma's failure to uphold its "responsibility to protect," seeing the measure as a step toward potential intervention. But it was a lost cause. Russia and China were ready to veto.»

Natalie Nougayréde, Foreign Policy, Set/Out 2009


A contradição hipócrita de quem diz defender os Direitos Humanos, mas é contra as intervenções no Iraque, Afeganistão, Congo, Coreia do Norte, Sudão, Somália e em tantos outros lugares onde crimes contra a Humanidade são sistematicamente cometidos.