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RE: sad
By jskirwin on 5/15/2007 10:12:57 PM , Rating: 3
And dont act like we sent in troops to help the countries, if that was the case we should have sent troops to a dozen africa coutries for the last 10 years.

Right, so my stepson in the Corps did a tour in East Timor for the surfing. Or his friend in the Army did a stint in Kosovo because Albanian chicks are freakin' HOOOOTTT.

It's a lot cooler to slap a bumpersticker on your car that says Save Darfur . However send the Marines to actually save the place and you would be screaming American Imperialism .

RE: sad
By Ringold on 5/15/2007 10:27:36 PM , Rating: 3
Indeed. They'd say we have no respect for international law, diplomacy, due process or anything else, just a desire to go and blast apart countries we don't like.

In doing so, they'd skim over entirely the UN and AU's abysmal failure to force the government of Sudan to lift a finger to stop the genocide. They'd say we should talk more in the UN first, use the UN to levy sanctions or whatnot. Guess what? The UN has been; they've resisted (like Iraq). The UN wanted to put troops on the ground, and now they've been given permission to, but guess what? The EU, first of all, has suddenly realized it doesn't have the military capacity to really do the job properly, and even if they did, Sudan's got them under heavy restrictions and if Sudan asked them to leave, they probably would (like the cowards did in Rwanda).

Yet if we said we were sick of Sudan's games and went in, guns blazing, and eradicated the Janjaweed (sp?) and all their ilk, even if we left in the style of the first Gulf War, we'd be villified by the left. They'd probably point at the oil fields in the other regions of Sudan, find some American contractor that's been there for decades, link together a million dots to link back to a Republican, and it'd all be over American Imperialism looking out for 'Big Oil'.

Can't win for losing.

RE: sad
By HubbleBubble on 5/16/2007 12:32:03 PM , Rating: 2
Ha, that we're just getting posturing and that they're
not going in to "save" it is the hypocrisy.

