Darfur and the "moral authority" of the bombing of Yugoslavia

Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
I do need to comment on one thing from the Democratic debate - this from Sen. Joe Biden: "The reason we have no moral authority [in Darfur] is we're not acting. I heard the same argument with Milosevic. I went over there, found out there was genocide going on, I came to your husband, I said, 'We must act!' Now, look, we acted. Not an American was killed. We saved hundreds of thousands of lives." First, note what Biden equates to "acting" - bombing. Second, note his standards for success, which is certainly completely typical - "Not an American was killed." The death of hundreds or thousands of innocent Yugoslavian civilians? Of no concern to Biden, or anyone else in the American ruling class (we need only recall Madeleine Albright's famous comment that the deaths of a half-million Iraqi children from the sanctions was "worth it"). And finally, the nonsense about "saving hundreds of thousands of lives," hand-in-hand with the equally specious claim about "genocide going on."...
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