Talking Heads and Psycho Killers

Only weeks after the slaughter on the streets of Burma, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators as "abhorrent and unacceptable". Meanwhile, special envoy Ibrahim Gambari expressed his "great concern" at the mass relocations, arbitrary arrests and disappearances still being carried out in the wake of his four-day visit. As the UN pontificates, hampered by splits in the Security Council, the international community pins its hopes on the same Chinese suits who sent tanks into Tiananmen Square and suppressed the monks in Tibet. One day we might start learning from our mistakes...and other people might stop having to pay for them.