PETROL VERSUS HUMAN RIGHTS

Politicians are often politically correct by only paying lip-service, but do they do anything to criticise the leaders of countries where democracy is just an inconvenient theory and where Human Rights are not respected ?


The spectacle at present in Arab countries, in the Ivory Coast, and previously in other countries, where Leaders have held on to power for much too long, where they have feathered their nests to become multi-billionaires, where suddenly there are revolutions, why has this never provoked any angry reactions from "Western Leaders" ?


Why have Western Leaders never dared to raise the question of Human Rights in these countries ? Why have they not, collectively, dared to impose serious sanctions ? Have what they have done or preached had any effect ? Why have they collectively, in their "Politically Correct" manner behaved like cowards ? Is it because petrol is so important ?