At Last - Some Action on Darfur

Today was the date of my wife's follow-up appointment for her knee at Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre.
After our experience of the town centre Stasi-type toilets during our last visit, we went straight to the hospital.
As we expected, the MRI showed a normal knee, so the orthopod is referring my wife back to her GP.
No surprises there, then.
As a result of spending several hours on this jaunt, I got down to the allotment after tea, to find Nosher reclining in his deckchair on the patch of grass outside his shed.
It had been a sunny start to the day, but by now it was overcast with the occasional drizzle, but still warm, and Nosher appeared to be content to sit out in it.
As I set out my deckchair next to his he muttered, with his eyes closed:
'Done your watering. Nothing else to report. Intend to stay late to watch the badgers.'
And so we sat there as day gave way to the gloom of evening, chewing over the day's news.
'I heared on the radio that the international criminal court has issued indictements for war crimes against the president of Sudan over the Darfur crisis' I said.
'Well, it's about time' Nosher replied 'hundreds of thousands of people have died unnecessarily, and more will undoubtedly succumb whatever the West does. But it's important that the organisers of state-sponsored war crimes are brought to justice.'
'Do you think there's any chance of that?' I asked.
'Not so long as China is giving economic aid to Sudan' Nosher replied ' the West is hamstrung until China joins the condemnation of the Sudanese government.'
When the daylight had faded into a deepening gloom the first badger appeared, munching on the trail of peanuts we'd laid around our plots.
This particular badger was an old friend of many years, but tonight he had a pronounced limp, although he was still moving around freely.
'I think that just about sums up the West' Nosher observed 'we're just limping along but getting by at the moment. Our governments are very good at portraying themselves as the world's moral conscience, when in reality we have very little right to that title, given the dreadful history of interference in other countries for little or no justification. Still, let us hope some good comes of the condemnation of the government in Sudan.'
'I'll second that' I murmured, raising my glass of parsnip wine.
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