Spineless as a Jellyfish

The Economist has some truly vitriolic smack down up regarding Europe’s reaction to the Andijan massacre in Uzbekistan:

If so, the European Union has risen to the occasion as grandly as it did over Bosnia, Iraq and on so many other occasions: with a display of spinelessness worthy of a sea full of jellyfish. First, in June, it demanded that Uzbekistan submit to an international investigation to determine precisely what happened in Andijan. Failure to comply by July 1st, it terrifyingly threatened, might lead to a “partial suspension”Â? of the PCA. Some countries wanted to go so far as to threaten a visa ban for (some) Uzbek officials and possibly even an arms embargo””?but that was reckoned to be a bit too tough.

July 1st came and went, as did August 1st. Still the EU has done nothing. It has tried to send a ranking bureaucrat, one Jan Kubis, to take a look: but Uzbekistan has refused to let him go to Andijan. Fortunately, outfits such as Human Rights Watch, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe have proved more enterprising than Mr Kubis””?so there is no excuse to be made that the EU does not have a pretty good idea of what happened.

Read the rest here.

The British seem to be the only ones in Europe who get it. Europe has continued to prove that it is actually one of the biggest contributers to instability and conflict due to its inaction. I’m coming close to adding an “Appeasement” category to ComingAnarchy’s list.