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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [qb] That situation just pisses me off. Every week, headlines are "UN says Darfur genocide REALLY NEEDS TO STOP NOW". For months. [/qb][/QUOTE]I was pissed about them saying that...what?...eight? Nine months ago? I think there's a fear of getting into the kind of tactical quagmire the US is in (in Iraq, of course). It also underlines the limits of the UN to do more than shout if the military powers of the security Council dont want to get involved. I'm [b]not[/b] UN bashing here- it's just sad that the only solution to this is military intervention and it's [i][b]not[/i][/b] gonna happen anytime soon. It reminds me of the almost [i]two years[/i] of reports of mass graves in Bosnia before the problem got nightly attention on the news (ABC got the first U.S. reporters there, IIRC) and public opinion swayed to the point where the President (then Clinton) called for military action. As though he did not know what was going on [i]before[/i] then. :rolleyes: Worse still: the papers here carry NOTHING on the darfur region at all, but there's a biiig story each time some hollywood actor gets involved in Tsunami Relief (DiCaprio's mug was splashed acroos the "People" page in this week's [/i]Sun Sentinel[i]). Mabye frightened arabs are not as photogenic. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [qb] There's not a lot of oil in Sudan, is there? Or contracts to be had, or an easily visible dictator to be disposed, or anything of remote interest to the civilized Western world. Like there wasn't in Rwanda. Just a bunch of sandniggers with nothing to offer in return. Who cares if they wipe each other out?[/qb][/QUOTE][/i]Fuck Cartman, you make it sound as though the US is the[i] only[/i] country capable of intervention there. I'd pay real money to see France or Russia do anything even [i]remotely[/i] humanitarian there. Why bother when they wait for the US to intervene -too late- and snipe at the US from safety, right? It's keeping Chirac in office. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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