A Stitch in Haste

One constant in world affairs is that dictatorships come to each other's aid when "unenlightened" democracies try to gang up on them and "interfere" in their "legitimate" national sovereignty.

The most recent example:

China and Russia on Friday vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution calling on Myanmar's military junta to stop persecution of minority and opposition groups, killing the measure in the U.N. Security Council.
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"This resolution would have been a strong and urgently needed statement by the Security Council about the need for change in Burma, whose military regime arbitrarily arrests, tortures, rapes and executes its own people, wages war on minorities within its own borders, and builds itself new cities, while looking the other way as refugee flows increase, narcotics and human trafficking grow, and communicable diseases remain untreated." [the acting U.S. ambassador] said.
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The military has run Myanmar since 1962, ignoring a 1990 landslide election victory by the National League for Democracy party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, who has been in prison or under house arrest since then. Thousands of her supporters have been jailed.

The idea that illegitimate regimes such as China are even allowed to send their shill diplomats to U.S. soil is a insult against humanity. To give Communist butchers a seat on the archaic and increasingly silly, but still dangerously potent, Security Council is far more than an insult.

Like any other political faction, representatives of butchers will of course vote for butchery. This is as unsurprising as it is intolerable. Which is precisely why American and other diplomats will act surprised over such acts and continue to tolerate them.

There's a term for such utter nonsense:

Diplomacy.

Previous U.N. posts here. Previous Burma posts here.