"Russia and China veto every attempt to get UN action.

Russia and China supply all the shells and rockets raining down on the helpless people, and the weapons that fire them."

Our governments of any hue have made a pact with the devil they can't renege on. They've turned a blind eye to the crimes of China and Russia against their own (and in the case of the Tibetans, other) people to turn a profit, and now both countries can act in their own interests with impunity.

Let's be honest, if Hitler and chums were about today they'd get away with their horrors as long as trade and business weren't affected. That's the nasty, sordid little outcome of unfettered capitalism; it's rendered us morally and ethically bankrupt (because we're the torturers too these days) and it ignores the plight of the little people, such as those being slaughtered in Homs.

We might be firing the guns ourselves, but we're complicit in the act as we stand by doing nothing but talk and letting other brutal regimes dictate our lack of response. What a fuck up.