Bush on Darfur: U.S. 'will not avert our eyes'
Chicago Tribune
Posted by Mark Silva
Posted by Mark Silva
President Bush, protesting the government of Sudan's continued efforts to support militias and thwart peacekeeping efforts in the violence-plagued Darfur region, today announced U.S. economic sanctions against several Sudanese companies and individuals and called on the United Nations to step up sanctions against the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
"For too long, the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder and rape of innocent civilians,'' said Bush, again describing as "genocide'' a military campaign that has left more than 200,000 dead and displaced more than 2.5 million people as refugees from the Darfur region. "The world has a responsibility to help put an end to it.
"I promise this to the people of Darfur, the United States will not avert our eyes to a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world.''
What's he planning to do? What troops do we have to send here now? Is he just trying to embarrass the United Nations? Has he given up on the concept that Sudan will help us with Al Qaeda? Has he decided to tweak China by getting between them and Sudan?
Oh, I get it, The Blackwater Army will need employment if we take them out of Iraq. Not a bad idea actually. They can become sort of a Bush Praetorian Guard! Maybe they can hang around and help out during the 2009 coup after the terrorist nuclear attacks on the East and West coast.
Of course it isn't the government of Sudan that is really at fault in Dafur. It is something else that President Bush does not believe in: Climate Change.
You see that region of the world has become dryer each year since 1973. No water, no food, no way to sustain everybody. Men with guns will then always rule. In this case they are Muslim and the victims are Christians and pagans, but it could just as easily be the other way around. In fact, it really comes down to the Biblical Cain & Able conflict, the cowboys vs. the farmers. (The American solutions is straight out of a Broadway Musical named "Oklahoma" re: "The Cowboys and the Farmers should be friends!")
The entire region is drying up and blowing away. Lake Chad for instance in 1973 was the sixth largest lake in the world. Today it is about the size of an Oklahoma cattle tank (pond to the rest of the world). Want to see what is happening check out this:
Life in this part of the planet is only as good as the last rain. Rain has not been something that is happening here. The U.S. has sent via The United nations etc. as much as $1.7 billion dollars in aid to Darfur in the last five years (about the same amount as week of war in Iraq). But all we are doing is feeding in place, and not a safe place at that. Migration is the only reasonable option. Migration to where? This is the first of an ongoing problem that we have yet to recognize or address. We will have to relocate much of the world's population or watch them die in place. Not next year, but starting last year.
Our child President is not up to this job. Are any of the want-to-be Presidents up to the job? Do they even know that it is here?
It is up to each of us to take this into consideration as we choose the next "leader" of the free world.
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