{"id":9962,"date":"2007-10-09T07:15:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2007-10-09T07:15:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T13:15:39","slug":"had-they-only-worn-extra-sweaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9962","title":{"rendered":"Had they only worn extra sweaters…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Carter, fresh off of sniffing wood glue, takes to legal parsing in defending<\/a> the Sudanese government against charges of genocide:<\/p>\n

“If you read the law textbooks … you’ll see very clearly that it’s not genocide and to call it genocide falsely just to exaggerate a horrible situation I don’t think it helps.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr Carter, if outcome is any indications, didn’t think a nuclear-free North Korea helped much either — and he wasn’t too sanguine on how helpful would have been an aggressive US response to the Iranian Student Revolution that kept US citizens hostage for over a year. And lest we forget, it wasn’t helpful, in Carter’s view, to cast communism as evil, nor was it helpful to complain about a dying economy when all one needed to do was put on a few more layers of clothing to keep warm.<\/p>\n

Or, to put it another way, the only thing Jimmy Carter seems to find helpful are the things Jimmy Carter finds helpful, though ironically, these things have a track record of proving completely unhelpful — unless, that is, your interests run counter to US interests. In which case, Carter is something of a transnational savior.<\/p>\n

Ken McCracken at Say Anthing has a different take<\/a> on the Sudanese conditions — citing the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide<\/a> to make his case.<\/p>\n

Which is helpful, given that the 200,000 people who have died in this legally non-genocidal Janjaweed depopulation program could not readily be reached to testify.<\/p>\n

Their having been, you know, depopulated<\/em> and all.<\/p>\n

Not very helpful on their part, sure — but the blame almost certainly goes to AIPAC and Israel. Just because.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Carter, fresh off of sniffing wood glue, takes to legal parsing in defending the Sudanese government against charges of genocide: “If you read the law textbooks … you’ll see very clearly that it’s not genocide and to call it genocide falsely just to exaggerate a horrible situation I don’t think it helps.” Mr Carter, if outcome is any indications, didn’t think a nuclear-free North Korea helped much either —<\/p>\n

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