George W....Sudan Has WMD!
Okay, maybe they don't. But if I've learned anything from Desert Storm Episode 2, it's that only those countries undergoing catastrophic humanitarian crises who can also provide sketchy, incomplete evidence of nuclear weapons programs will be considered for intervention.
Foreign officials from both the UN and the US have been reporting all year that the Sudanese government is attempting to ethnically cleanse its own country. What has been done to remedy this situation? We've dropped plenty of food, reviewed many proposals, reported unfavorably about the Sudanese government... and not much else from what I can see. In one of the aforementioned reports, the US proposed using sanctions to help coerce Sudan's government into putting a halt to their genocidal efforts. The UN Security Council had some concerns over the wording... I think it went something like this:
SECURITY COUNCIL: We have some concerns over the wording of this document, we think the term you've used here may be too harsh
U.S.: Oh, Genocide you mean?
SECURITY COUNCIL: No! Gosh no, we meant sanctions. Any fool can see we've got a genocide on our hands... but lets be careful about throwing words like sanctions around.
Now I don't endorse the war in Iraq, but thats another post for another time. What I will say is that the appalling degree of inaction the UN has displayed in Sudan just begs for Iraq-type conflicts to happen when nations as frustrated with the situation as I am, decide to act unilaterally. If the UN Security Council is going to be an effective sheriff to the wold then they're going to need to find some bollocks.
Foreign officials from both the UN and the US have been reporting all year that the Sudanese government is attempting to ethnically cleanse its own country. What has been done to remedy this situation? We've dropped plenty of food, reviewed many proposals, reported unfavorably about the Sudanese government... and not much else from what I can see. In one of the aforementioned reports, the US proposed using sanctions to help coerce Sudan's government into putting a halt to their genocidal efforts. The UN Security Council had some concerns over the wording... I think it went something like this:
SECURITY COUNCIL: We have some concerns over the wording of this document, we think the term you've used here may be too harsh
U.S.: Oh, Genocide you mean?
SECURITY COUNCIL: No! Gosh no, we meant sanctions. Any fool can see we've got a genocide on our hands... but lets be careful about throwing words like sanctions around.
Now I don't endorse the war in Iraq, but thats another post for another time. What I will say is that the appalling degree of inaction the UN has displayed in Sudan just begs for Iraq-type conflicts to happen when nations as frustrated with the situation as I am, decide to act unilaterally. If the UN Security Council is going to be an effective sheriff to the wold then they're going to need to find some bollocks.
