Isn't it funny that people like you always lecture the west when we don't stop a genocide like that? You say it makes us complicit in genocide. But then if we did go and intervene, people like you would be waving anti-war placards around and accusing our troops of actually commiting genocide. I say screw intervention. I support pulling out of Iraq, but we should never get invloved in conflicts like this either.

This is a response to the previous comment. I don't think that the author's straight-forward observation that "America, Europe and the rest of the World stood strangely silent" should justify such a rebuke.

In my opinion, the anger towards 'Western' governments is due to their hypocritical priorities, for example not intervening in crises such as ethnic cleansing in Sudan or Zimbabwe, the oppression and collective punishment of Palestinian civilians, whilst they are eager to invade resource rich or strategically useful countries. In other words their reasons for invading a country are not based on humanitarian need but on what value it provides our economies in the long run.

The lack of democratic consensus is also an area worthy of attention. A UN mandate was not reached but the 'coaliton of the willing' invaded anyway. Also the US provided financial support to countries willing to give them UN support, surely tantamount to buying votes? Not to mention that the UN is undemocratic; the most powerful countries hold vetoes so essentially have the power to 'switch off democracy' when it doesn't suit them.