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2005-02-03 Africa: Horn

UN Envoy 'Horrified' by Fresh Darfur Attacks

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-03 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I guess since the US didn't ratify the ICC, the UN will not do anything, out of spite.

Posted by Pappy 2005-02-03 12:46:42 AM|| 2005-02-03 12:46:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 You boys are naughty! *lip quivering* Go to your room for 10 months! (/sarcasm)
Where do they get these idiots? Oh that's right, old Europe.

Posted by Spot 2005-02-03 8:39:04 AM|| 2005-02-03 8:39:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 You could tell he was horrified. He passed on dessert...

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-03 9:48:18 AM|| 2005-02-03 9:48:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 If they aren't careful, he is going to start calling them by their full names. And then say he is ashamed of them.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-03 10:31:04 AM|| 2005-02-03 10:31:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 In keeping with the Bush Doctrine I say we send some Special Forces troops along with CIA assets into Darfur and get Black Africans back on the offensive and work to collapse this Regime as well. PS Where is public outcry from Rangel, Obama, Jesse Jackson etc about the abject slaughter of "Blacks" by Insano Muslims. Not a peep. Disgusting.

Posted by Rightwing 2005-02-03 11:00:12 AM|| 2005-02-03 11:00:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Where is public outcry from Rangel, Obama, Jesse Jackson etc about the abject slaughter of "Blacks" by Insano Muslims.

Black Africans don't vote Democrat.

Posted by Pappy 2005-02-03 11:03:05 AM|| 2005-02-03 11:03:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 US citizens "horrified" by UN inaction.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-02-03 1:39:05 PM|| 2005-02-03 1:39:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The so called "Dafur Crisis" will need to wait until the superb bowl is over. This will free up the cruise shipping necessry for a balls to the wall UN effort.

LiberalHawk... WOT heard Jacksonville described on NPR as Baja Florida. LOL!

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-03 5:33:57 PM|| 2005-02-03 5:33:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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Re #6 (Pappy): Where is public outcry from Rangel ...

I know that Rangel has been very outspoken about the problem.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-02-03 6:15:40 PM|| 2005-02-03 6:15:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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He's "horrified." Not to the point where he calls for real armies to step in and depose a corrupt dictatorship that commits what may constitute "crimes against humanity," though not genocide, of course. Instead, he calls on both sides to "stop the killing" and be nice.

The very same can be said about President Bush.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-02-03 6:17:08 PM|| 2005-02-03 6:17:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 MS-That's because Pres. Bush already knows that any offers to intervene militarily WITH THE HELP OF ALLIES will be flatly refused and mocked by the less ethical among the UN members, while 6000-10000 people per month are dying in Darfur from unnatural causes.

Mike-It's amazing to me that you can be so sensible on WoT issues, but when it comes to the UN, you are as unwilling to criticize the UN as a cowed woman is of a spouse who has just beat the crap out of her and the police are on the phone asking if she needs help.

"Oh, no, he's wonderful, he's the best thing I know in this world. Nothing's wrong. Oh, those bruises? Well, I tripped down the stairs..."

Posted by Jules 187 2005-02-03 6:28:22 PM|| 2005-02-03 6:28:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 You know they should really stop because teh UN tells them to stop.

The UN is to coolest. The UN should run the Solar system. The UN should run the US and get to decide homwe much taxes you need to pay.

Kofi is like a God. I love Kofi.

Posted by Sike Mylwester 2005-02-03 6:41:13 PM|| [http://www.theUnistheGod.org] 2005-02-03 6:41:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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Re #11 (Jules): That's because Pres. Bush already knows that any offers to intervene militarily WITH THE HELP OF ALLIES will be flatly refused and mocked by the less ethical among the UN members

There's inadequate political support within the USA for a military intervention in Darfur. In that regard, the USA is no different than its allies or than other members of the UN Security Council.

We are not in a situation where the USA would decide to intervene if it had support from the UN and from other countries. The real situation is that the USA does not want to intervene.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-02-03 7:14:27 PM|| 2005-02-03 7:14:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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Re #11 (Jules): when it comes to the UN, you are as unwilling to criticize the UN

I've criticized the UN plenty, and I'll criticize it again. The UN is structurally unable to intervene effectively in many major international problems. The UN consists mostly of countries that are undemocratic, ignorant, corrupt, backward, foolish, and so forth. The UN wastes a lot of money. Does that make you happy enough for now?

That doesn't mean, though, that the UN is to blame for all the world's problems. It doesn't mean that the USA's own non-intervention in such problems is the fault of the UN. It doesn't mean that if the UN disappeared, then the world would be a better place. It doesn't mean that the UN does not serve some useful purposes, such as providing a forum where practically all the world's countries belong and participate.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-02-03 7:21:04 PM|| 2005-02-03 7:21:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Luckily the UN is too ineffective to cause many problems.

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-03 7:42:16 PM|| 2005-02-03 7:42:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Ok....would it be easier to list what the UN can do successfully? Rather easy.

I contend that the UN is like a meeting without and adjenda. They are a waste of time.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-02-03 10:17:24 PM|| 2005-02-03 10:17:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 There's inadequate political support within the USA for a military intervention in Darfur.

Why can't the EU do something? This isn't quite in their back yard, a la the Balkans, but it's still closer to them than it is to us.

Besides, we're busy with the more dicey stuff.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-03 10:37:44 PM|| 2005-02-03 10:37:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Europe is full of sympathy for others and that is about it. If someone balls have to be placed on the line outside of the UK there is nothing. The Phrench will gladly defend their interests but noting else. The rest of them are pretty much usless as tits on a bull. Sudan is Europes problem. They were never a colony of the US or a client state. We have our hands full. We have had no problem using the G word. The rest of the UN has.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-03 10:51:55 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-02-03 10:51:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Sounds like a good case for getting the locals some serious training in weapons and tactics so they can defend themselves. Some SF leverage might do some good. I am not familiar with the details involved, but the Sudan govt needs a good bloody nose. Read the history of the Sudan and weep.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-03 11:17:31 PM|| 2005-02-03 11:17:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I know that Rangel has been very outspoken about the problem.

I thought he was involved with PETA in ~~shaking down~~ berating KFC.

Chickens take preference over Black Africans?

Posted by Pappy 2005-02-03 11:51:26 PM|| 2005-02-03 11:51:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Rangel. ROLF!!! Yeah, there's a man of integrity.

Posted by .com 2005-02-03 11:53:10 PM|| 2005-02-03 11:53:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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