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Yes, there are numerous commercials running on TV to save darfur. How about the US focus on it’s own problems for a change? Did you know people are homeless? Did you know people are dying from lack of proper health care? Etc…
Do you remember Rwanda? What was the US response then? The US government will only respond when there is a natural resource that can be beneficial to the US.
Surprise, surprise, Joe! Most folks who care about the downtrodden around the world already play a part in fighting the good fight at home. That doesn’t include the turds in DC.
If you recognize a crime, you have a responsibility to respond to that crime. The existential equation is that easy. Unless you’re just another racist copout who worries about the US accidentally ending up on the side of someone in Africa who doesn’t directly profit Gulf Oil?
There are enough funds poured down the military rathole in Iraq to sort out a couple boatloads of legitimate needs — from Katrina rebuilding to Darfur — easily enough. Just little or no political will on the part of the American electorate or the thugs in charge.
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Out of curiosity, what is China and Russia doing about Darfur? How about the European Union?
I’ve known for a while. The problem is that we are so mired in Iraq, we can’t help in Darfur.
The U.N. could help, but perhaps it’s too tied up as well.
I’ve been a military intelligence officer for 12 years now, and I’ve been in plenty of places, pleasant and unpleasant, because that’s my job. One of those was six months in Bosnia hunting down malefactors from all the factions who were doing things like transshipping girls for sex slavery, arms trafficking, and the always popular arms trading. Oh, yeah, don’t forget the “mujahadeen volunteers” who were still at large there after 9-11. Doing the little bit of good that I could there was one of the most rewarding things about my career thus far, one of the few that was unmitigated good. But the only reason it worked was that the people I worked with in the Bosnian government (both Croat-Muslim and Serbian entities) for the most part wanted it to work. They wanted to restore order to their country so they and their children could get on with their lives.
Who will be the force for stability in Sudan? I’m not saying there’s no case to be made for intervention; there certainly is. But there’s more to an intervention than just sending troops. We can go there and stop the killing this week, but what happens the day after we leave? In Bosnia, the answer was more NATO troops, followed by a handover to the EU, all done in cooperation with a government that wanted to keep the peace.
Tell me how we stop the killing the week after we leave and you’ve sold me on going there.
honestly, what is a darfur, and who are they to go around and kill themselves?
Yes. There is Genocide going on, The jaweed, a highly skilled, and highly armed group of government backed fighters are trying to kill all the black people.
I thought the U.S was wrong to do things unilaterally? Where’s the UN? The EU?!?
It wouldn’t have to be that way if they were blessed with an abundance of oil.
George Bush, the quagmire in Iraq and all future repercussions from that growing terrorist threat is God’s punishment on the United States for our indifference to the genocide of 2 million Christians in Sudan.
It’s FALSE to say the US has done nothing about this problem. A quick Google search turned up this:
The United States government will contribute an additional $188.5 million in emergency assistance to help ease the humanitarian crisis in Darfur in western Sudan, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Andrew Natsios, announced June 3.
Speaking at a Darfur donors’ conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Natsios said the pledge brings the total U.S. contribution for Darfur to nearly $300 million since February 2003.
#2 and #3 Nice attempt to bash the U.S. when the topic was the UN not doing anything. I guess they are too busy shreding oil for food documents, to worry about Darfur.
#10 right on, its the U.N. job unless a bash on the U.S. is possible, then it the U.S. fault.
Yes, I know. Oddly, I don’t care.
The genocide of humanity is done on itself and has been going on since man learned he could kill each other.
You will never change that until every single human being is dead.
Then there will be no more genocide.
Until then do what you can, when you can where you can. No one is asking more than that.
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You say “just as the US response…” What about the Egyptian response, the Kenyan response and the South African response? Responses aren’t just about sending troops. It’s about expressing outrage. The African neighbors can be outraged by the reported facts, not just the western nations. Peace keeping troops and monetary aid are second order responses and can come from anyone with moral authority and wealth. Sadly, there isn’t a beacon of moral authority in the region…at least not yet.
So tell me, how does this affect me?
I fail to see what vital interests the US has in darfur? I mean as awful as it is what’s going on in Darfur, what good is it doing the American taxpayer to devote resources to the mess there?
Liberal piss heads. If there was a response you’d blast it anyway. It’s just amazing. When we stick our nose in, you say we don’t belong. When we stay out, you say we don’t care. You say the middle east is about oil, yet when prices gas prices go up you expect the government to do something. According to you, poor New Orleans wasn’t treated right but Denver had a big ass snowy holiday.
Wasn’t that a South Park episode? Something about a “starvin marvin”?
#18
Do you ever read international news or you skip directly to the cartoon section? Perhaps you should read up on the African Union.
#14, gq,
#2 and #3 Nice attempt to bash the U.S. when the topic was the UN not doing anything.
Well, looking at Uncle Daves comment at the top, it reads,…
That’s right. No picture or links to articles or anything else. Just like the US response to what’s going on there. Nothing.
Other comments have included a reasonable response to why the US hasn’t responded.
1)indifference
2)caught up in Iraq
3)no oil or resource
#10 right on, its the U.N. job unless a bash on the U.S. is possible, then it the U.S. fault.
Your idol Bush has sent his boy John Bolton to “clean up” the United Nations. That has included trying to emasculate the already poorly funded programs. All UN peace keeping missions are voluntary and mostly funded by the countries contributing troops. The US though would rather contribute strike forces to a war then peace keepers to separate factions.
We give food to many nations to feed the poor, that never gets TO the poor.
We fight for OIL,
We fight for chemical plants
We fight for for US concerns..
What IS’ a US concern??
we complain to china about human rights, and do nothing.
we complain about Killings and ,aiming in nations with no OIL, and do nothing.
We see nations build Nukes,
Those that have Connections to US business, and are friendly, we do NOTHING.
Those that have NOTHING we want or have US business, we Complain about, and hassle.
Funny aint it.
i’m frakin’ sick of hearing about how we (the US) are suppose to be taking care of all these people.
Odd, when Pol Pot was busy exterminating three million in Cambodia, I remember not a single plea that we should intervene. However, I do remember hearing worldwide condemnation of Vietnamese troops attacking the Khmer Rouge inside Cambodia’s border.
Altruism has never been the policy of the US or any other country you want to name. When it comes to genocide in countries around the world, hypocrisy is the philosophy embraced by both the right and the left.
http://www.darfurisdying.com/
off topic, but this looks interesting – http://citebite.com/
“Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.”
If the mainstream media were as ‘liberal’ as the bush-bots would have you believe, then this story would be everywhere. The fact that it isn’t should tell everyone with a functioning brain just where the media’s loyalties lie – with big business and with the republican regime currently in power.
If the atrocities in Darfur were happening somewhere where our precious oil supplies were coming from, you can bet that we’d be there doing everything we could. Not necessarily to stop the violence, but to protect the oil.
The bush-bots will run and say ‘what about the EU or the UN?’ or ‘we have enough problems at home!’ conveniently ignoring those who asked those same questions before rushing off to an ill-advised war in Iraq.
So the solution is to send American troops from one hostile environment where they aren’t wanted to another hostile environment where they aren’t wanted? For once can we let a country solve their own damned problems without involving US?