Canada fiddles, the UN dithers and Sudanese die

What is wrong with this story? "Canada deliberates training Darfur police force" subtitle: "Women don't trust officers from Khartoum to protect them from rape, envoy says."

The women want a local police force established, and Ottawa is considering helping with police training as part of an overall peace plan for Sudan, she said in an interview.

Canada has, according to the article already sent $25 million in humanitarian aid, a noble effort. Canada, it is said, worked behind the scenes to help pass a United Nations resolution threatening Sudan with economic and diplomatic sanctions. Not, mind you, condeming the killing as genocide because the U.N. and Canada and "other countries" can't agree that it is genocide, not because it would force them to act, but because they can't get a consensus to do anything.
Again.

And that's the crux of the U.N.'s problem. Veto power of both France and China ensure that nothing meaningful will be done in the U.N. France takes on that job alone in NATO. The U.S. introduced a resolution calling it genocide. It wasn't passed. It wasn't rejected either because they didn't want a public veto. The watered down resolution promised economic and diplomatic sanctions, giving them 30 days. Small print: Annan had negotiated a settlement that would have given them 90 days to disarm. Annan's role in Rwanda for which he later apologized. Then there is the French role in Rwanda still being debated. Chinese oil interests in Sudan.

So how does Canada intend to send officers to train police officers when the Muslim government in Khartoum won't even restrain Muslim mercenaries from rampage killing? They don't. It's just for show. Canada is so impotent they can't even get back the body of a Canadian killed by Iranian police. They weren't even allowed at the trial of the accused. Canada is so useless that they haven't the moral authority it takes to convince the world that they should have a right to be at that trial. Canada, in short, has sold its soul to the U.N. so they could "punch above their weight" as they say in Ottowa. It's a term that means they can be more important working with others - like France and the U.N.

Sometimes it is necessary in life to quit punching at the air and start pulling your weight. Like a responsible adult.