Anti-Climacus

QUOTE: SIAW:

"Finally, to put both the Lancet report and the events in Fallujah into some much-needed perspective, here’s Will Rubbish showing what can happen - and is still happening right now, as you read this - when the West does not intervene; and here’s a report proving that Will’s description of the UN as “the professionally uber-incompetent conglomerate of intellectually constipated mutherf****s” is putting it far too politely. Those on the pseudo-left who claim, with utter implausibility, to be equally concerned about every loss of an innocent life would do well to reflect on the sharply different fates of Afghanistan and Iraq, on the one hand, and Darfur on the other - though, of course, they won’t; and those mired in the liberal swamp who approach “international law” with the same sanctimonious air as others approach the altar of God would do well to reflect further on Will’s question, “What does the UN exist for?” - but, of course, they won’t either. As ever, they’re all too busy lining up with China, Russia and assorted dictatorships against the US, Britain, Australia and assorted liberal democracies to have time for anything so difficult and uncomfortable as reflection.
Meanwhile, what C. Day Lewis wrote in 1943 still applies in 2004, and that's good enough for us:

It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse —
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse."