All animals are equal..

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." It's George Orwell's famous quote from his novel "Animal Farm". I couldn't agree more when I read the UN security council resolution 1593 regarding the situation in Darfur.

The resolution excluded US citizens, together with citizens of other countries that are not parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, from prosecution. If it wasn't for that exclusion, the US would have vetoed the resolution all together. Now here is the joke: Sudan is not a party to the Rome Statute.

So, thanks to the veto power, some war criminals are more equal than others.