The Senate did it last week. It's time for the American public to do it now. We need to pledge troops to NATO to
help secure Darfur until a UN peacekeeping mission can intervene.
Tell the President not to fail Darfur the way President Clinton failed Rwanda.
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Is there oil in Darfur? There wasn't any in Rwanda either. The people who run our country (namely the leaders of big business including the oil companies) don't see what's in it for them to commit to helping people in countries that we don't have a potential to profit from. Stalin and Pol Pot and the civil wars in Rwanda and other African countries have led to cases of genocide that rival the Holocaust in scope. Yet what did the U.S. do to stop them?
Nothing.
Our military is fighting two wars, has bases that it must staff in Japan, the Philipines, South Korea, Germany, Cuba, and several other places of significance as well as all of the bases in the States that must be adequately staffed to literally "Defend" our nation. Unless we re-instate the draft (a move that will cause me to move to Canada in order to make sure my son isn't forced to go into a never-ending war against terror that we can't realistically win) we can't afford to send troops to Darfur or any other hotspot that could really use our help.
Its a sad reality that our leadership has lost interest in helping the oppressed and has focused instead on protecting our financial interests. Let's not forget that FDR waited to enter the European Theater during WWII until Hitler threatened to crush our biggest ally and trading partner (Great Britain) even though the President was fully aware that Jews were languishing and being slaughtered in concentration camps.
In America, our government has sponsored the ouster of third world dictators in order to free up trade. We have trained and armed rebel groups who we have allowed to carry out lengthy civil wars and murderous campaigns in order to install our own handpicked leaders to take their place (as long as they agree to trade with us on our terms) such was the case in Honduras and the civil wars of other Banana Republics.
Turning a blind eye to Darfur is just business as usual to our government. Unless we pull out of Iraq and Afganistan or the Sudanese find the biggest reserve of oil in the world, the people in the Darfur region are in for a brutal and horrific future.
Is that a rant or what?
Darfur...wasn't he the pan flute guy? I'm not sure there is anything humanitarian about the pan flute.
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