Ivory Coast

[Backwards Observer]

As Salon asked of US Republican Senator James Inhofe's "backing [of] a brutal despot," it must be asked: Will the international community, led by the UN and France, continue to support a man implicated in such gross violations?

This is gonna sound hopelessly naive and possibly even chauvinistic, but for prominent US Christians to unblinkingly support an ostensibly Christian government that shoots unarmed women and appears to dismiss the incident as 'a blunder', really seems to diminish the whole Jesus thing. Is the New Testament important enough to be taken seriously, uh, especially by Christians; or am I the only clod who hasn't clued in that the whole converting the world business is in truth, "just business"?