It looks obvious

Back in March I wrote about the international ineffectiveness in Darfur . I was wondering since than why France prefer stopping the Darfur genocide in the halls of the United Nations in NYC instead of mobilizing its forces across the border, from Chad. I was tending to believe that France favors the diplomacy, although its obvious failure - but i was wrong!

Today, catching up on my blog reading , I found a great post about the interest involved in the diplomatic activity in Darfur that solve the mystery. In fact France, the one who was in the front of trying to prevent the war in Iraq with the awful slogan "No blood for oil", is the one who trading children blood for oil. Simply put - in order to keep its drilling rights in Darfur. The drilling rights map reviles that TotalFinaElf, a French oil company, has very strong interests in Darfur - a very strong incentive for the French government to avoid from any action that might save someone’s life.

One might argue that this is real politic, and this is how the game is being played - maybe. However when you are playing dirty games, and more often than not your are being caught with your hand in the cookie jar, you cannot claim to have any moral leadership. In retrospective I think that the war in Iraq was a mistake - We risk the chance to change the Middle-East on one big effort and its failure will push any effort to bring stability and democracy into this region far a way. That being said I still think that what led the American leadership to the war in Iraq was Ideology and not oil. I cannot credit with the kind of redeeming qualities the French leadership.

Shame on you Jacques Chirac.