ダルフール危機にまつわるスピンドクターども…

　finalventさんもWPほど皮肉は言えませんがね。
　スピンドクター⇒http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=spin+doctor&kind=ej&mode=0
　⇒Darfur's Real Problem

Friday, June 3, 2005; Page A22
SUDAN MAY be extremely poor, but its spin doctors are sophisticated. The suffering in Darfur is terrible, they say, but don't blame the government. The violence is a function of generalized anarchy, which is a function of underdevelopment, which is a function of the West's failure to help: To chastise Sudan's impoverished rulers is therefore hypocritical. Rather than urging punitive sanctions, outsiders such as The Post should urge engagement and assistance.
　
So how do the spin doctors explain this week's news? On Monday Sudan's government showed its real feelings about Western help by bringing charges against the Sudan director of Doctors Without Borders, an intrepid medical charity that runs clinics in Darfur. The next day it detained the charity's Darfur coordinator. Over the past six months, the government has arrested or threatened more than 20 foreign aid workers in Darfur -- not exactly evidence of an appetite for Western engagement.
　
The idea that Darfur's crisis is not really the government's fault has never fit the facts. In response to a rebellion by two local armed groups, Sudan's government attacked civilians with helicopter gunships and armed a local militia to raze villages. Then, far from soliciting international help to deal with the humani-tarian fallout, Sudan's government actually blocked aid groups' access to Darfur. Its policy toward displaced people was to deprive them of food, sanitation and protection: in other words, to kill them. Recently, government troops and their militia allies have engaged in a systematic policy of raping civilians. Doctors Without Borders has been targeted this week because it documented these offenses.

　高橋メソッドにしてみましょうかね。
　
Sudan may be extremely poor,
but its spin doctors are sophisticated.
The suffering in Darfur is terrible,
they say, but don't blame the government.
So how do the spin doctors explain the next news?
Recently,
Sudan government troops and their militia allies
have engaged in
a systematic policy of raping civilians.
⇒A Policy of Rape - New York Times