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| UN figures out Darfur's problem...it's the water, stupid! |
| 2007-07-25 |
| Lemme get this straight: The Arab janjaweed have been off'ing the locals (even "fellow" Muslims) for years (can you say "genocide", Mr. Ki-Moon?), and yet the UN finds that it's the water that's causing problems, not the RoP? The head rot in the UN is truly worse than I thought. THE announcement by researchers at Boston University last week that a vast underground lake the size of Lake Erie had been discovered beneath the barren soil of northern Darfur, a blood-soaked but otherwise parched land racked by war for the past four years, was greeted by rapturous hopes. Could this, at last, bring deliverance from a cataclysmic conflict that has killed at least 200,000 people and pushed more than 2.5 million from their homes? That hope is built upon an argument, advanced by a United Nations report released last month and an opinion article in The Washington Post by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, that environmental degradation and the symptoms of a warming planet are at the root of the Darfur crisis. What, no mention of President Bush and Kyoto? There's even more idiocy at the BBC's coverage of this "news", but just reading the NYTimes hand-wringing is enough for me. More at link. |
| Posted by:BA |
| #4 Lest we fergit, the UNO and various enviro Perts had claimed that DECLINING WATER SOURCES OF VIABLE WATER in the ME will likely induce future threats of mil conflict in the region. IOW, the ME to CHINA will evolve ino one giant trans-regional/continental dustbowl. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-07-25 22:01 |
| #3 So basically the UN is going to drill a shitload of wells to reward the janjaweed for driving out all the tribes from the Darfur. Cause they arent going to let them back in just cause there's water. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-07-25 13:34 |
| #2 It's all about water according to the academics. The UN says global warming. How about the Arab janjaweed as an explanation? Works for me. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-25 11:39 |
| #1 Well, maybe not ROP as such, since both sides are Mohammadans. More likely simple racism in the grand old tradition: Arabs against blacks. Making the land more valuable will make the Arabs less likely to want it and fight for it, right? |
| Posted by: James 2007-07-25 11:32 |