While listening to Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning he mentioned a Washington Post Op-ed by Liberal Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback.
The entire Op-Ed should be read, but here is an excerpt.
Policy Adrift on Darfur
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The piece offers details of how things are going adrift and suggest solutions. The most critical suggested solution will be:
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The bottom line is this, if the USA does not start sending troops and initiate a full scale military effort things will fall apart. Despite the rest of the world’s lip service, they will watch as the people die. If the so-called “great Satan” of the world does not make a greater move to save lives things will only get worse. Mr. Bennett raised this point about the need for US troops. Take note, today Bill Bennett said something about helping Blacks who are in the most urgent of need. I wonder how many news shows will cover it?
I’ve written about the issues in the Sudan in this piece and pointed out how President Bush has mentioned it in this other piece.
I know for many Conservatives this proposed use of US Troops might not be acceptable. But consider that the Sudan was a haven for Bin Laden and China is now making strong overtures to the Sudanese government. The Op-Ed even mentions:
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If noting is done about this situation, the area’s resources will become the tools of America’s enemies. Given the current government there that is already the case and getting worse. This is why China is working to do so much new trade with the government of Sudan. The Sudan has mass killings, a history of supporting terrorists and now is getting cozy with China. So I have no choice but to support the USA taking a stronger stand. We can either start stepping up efforts now or suffer the consequences of inaction.
Because if no more is done, the resulting death toll will look bad, but the support given to our enemies will make matters even worse for the USA and our allies.
update (12/27/2005 9:56AM ET): The Political Pit Bull also sees this op-ed as a positive act, while blog Narcissistic views on News/Politics has a different perspective on the motivations behind this op-ed being written.
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December 27th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
“The only difference between Rwanda and Darfur is the numbers involved of dead, tortured, and raped. This is ethnic cleansing, this is the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis, and I don’t know why the world is not doing more about it.”
- Mukesh Kapila, the former U.N.’s humanitarian coördinator for Sudan.
I have also read the article in the Washington Post and their last statement is also my own verdict.
“The Bush administration has helped reduce suffering in Darfur, but
the situation is dangerously adrift. And when the history of this tragedy is written, nobody will remember how many times officials visited the region or how much humanitarian aid was delivered. They will only remember the death toll.”"
-Barack Obama is a Democratic senator from Illinois.
Sam Brownback is a Republican senator from Kansas.
The US should have invaded Sudan and not Iraq. Because, the Al Qaida had a base in Sudan and Osama bin Laden was commanding the training of his terrorists in Sudan and when he fled, his terrorists were now mobilized to go on rampage against the allies of the US in Southern Sudan.
The Chinese and Russians are supplying the arms to Sudan and Thuraya mobile phones being used by the Arab Janaweed militias on rampage in the Darfur region with over 400,000 people dead so far. These Janaweed militias are terrorists trained by the Al Qaida.
Imagine this gory tale of horror:
August 2, 2004. Kaltoma Ahmed, 16, described watching her six-year-old brother
Adam die. “[The Janjaweed] tied the children’s hands and feet,” she said. “They put them in the house, and burned it to the ground.”
Eric Reeves
http://www.sudanreeves.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=204&page=1
The US must stop the genocide in Darfur now before it is too late.
December 28th, 2005 at 12:45 am
Yes the US should do something since we all know the U.N. is a complete waste of time and money. The U.N. will do nothing to save the black Christians of the Sudan since countries like China and Canada (yes Canada) profit from the oil pipeline in the Sudan.
If anyone is looking for a real “Oil for Blood” issue to take to the streets and protest…one need look no further than Canada and
China.
January 12th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Alito praises the NAACP’s efforts in Brown v. Board of Education. Proves Roe is not settled law.
Judge Samuel Alito’s Senate nomination hearings had a ray of light, when he was actually given an opportunity to speak freely on the issue of whether some cases are settled law.
In his exchanges with Conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback.
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