Jimmy Carter Denys Geocide in Darfur, But Convinced U.S. Tortures

It is sad that Jimmy Carter has no problem accusing the U.S. of being engaged in torture, but at the same time he refuses to call the genocide in Darfur a genocide.

On Wednesday Carter told Wolf Blitzer he is convinced the United States engages in torture that clearly breaches international law. According to Carter he doesn't think it, "he knows it, certainly." However, when it comes to the issue of torture, it depends on how one defines torture. One needs to consider whether water boarding, sleep deprivation, and exposer to uncomfortable temperatures is torture. Then, in this case, it begs the question of whether those fighting us, not under the flag of a nation, but rather a hateful ideology fall under the protections of the Geneva Conventions. The point is this is a complex issue, and to take such a solid stance shows how he must be blinded by hate of the Bush administration, especially since he is considered one of the most indecisive Presidents in U.S. history.

However, when it comes to the genocide occurring in Darfur, Carter's seems to defend a regime responsible for the murder of 200,000 people.

"There is a legal definition of genocide and Darfur does not meet that legal standard. The atrocities were horrible but I do not think it qualifies to be called genocide," said former US President Jimmy Carter.

Though it is currently trendy and commonplace for Democrats to accuse the Bush Administration of committing war crimes, at least don't defend real war criminals, responsible for real genocides.

Conservative Blogs Get Victory Over Star Tribune

Here's a good story about grass root right-wing blog sites making an impact on the left-wing mainstream media. It is a story about the the changes the Star Tribune had to make after they let their left-wing biases take precedent over journalism.

As one Strib veteran tells the Mole, "The right-wing blog voices that were bashing the paper a couple of years ago, Hugh Hewitt and the rest, have gotten pretty much everything they wanted. The GOP wanted the Minnesota Poll gone, and now it's gone. They wanted to get rid of people like [editorial board members] Jim Boyd and Susan Albright and their editorial policy, and they've succeeded at that. Now there won't be editorials about the war and global warming; they'll write about local issues like zoning conflicts in Coon Rapids instead. They wanted the paper to hire a conservative columnist, and they got that. From here on out, it looks like the Strib becomes the conservative, suburbs-oriented paper, and the Pioneer Press will become the paper of the city underdogs and the blue voters.

Of course, the Star Tribune will never turn into a conservative paper, although the fact that the internal concern exists is entertaining. It's also interesting that when a left-wing news paper tries to make small steps to be more moderate, individuals of the far left will probably consider it a conservative paper.