new friends same type
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=10516
I know I said this blog is about the state of our nation but the fact that we hardly criticized the government in Darfur but can swiftly deal with Saddam for his undemocratic ways including his “gassing of the Kurds” says a lot about the hypocrisy of our leadership. This includes the previous one too.
Refugees fleeing . . . from a village called Saleya described how nine boys were seized by the janjaweed, stripped naked and tied up, their noses and ears cut off and their eyes gouged out. They were then shot dead and left near a public well. Nicholas Kristof, reporting from Sudan about the genocide in Darfur (”Uncover Your Eyes,” The New York Times, June 7)
Bush has lost interest in the relentless destruction of these black Africans because, as the June 7 Financial Times reported, “US officials say Sudan is [now] a valuable partner [with the United States] in the ‘global war on terror.’
The above is second hand sourcing from a piece on the Sudan situation by
The Village Voice’s Nat Hentoff found here: http://villagevoice.com/news/0527,hentoff,65564,6.html
As you read this anyone with a bit of conscience would want to start the letter writing campains and protests as Nat Hentoff did. It will not do a thing though, especially here in the USA. To understand why it will fall on deaf ears in this country as Hentoff has found, I think a study of the psychopath may be in order. All about psychopaths here: http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm
It seems that to get in good with the leader in charge on this side of the pond, you need to first enslave, rape and kill sufficiently large amounts of people then promise to help fight terrorism. Too bad Saddam didn’t use the anti-terrorist stance to gain a get out of jail free card. Or maybe his anti-terrorism was too American for us. It helps if you do the dirty deed based on race or ethnicity too. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree either. Prescott Bush and pals were friendly toward the nazi regime and now George, well what can I say that hasn’t been already been said about Shrub and his pals. We are the new Nazi regime but that’s for another blog. As for Saddam, some of the neo-cons were sort of friendly with him once too. Why would Darfur be an ally now? They should take note.
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=661&var_recherche=US+relations
Few can doubt that in the current unipolar world order, the global political and development agenda is determined not by the United Nations or other such international organisations, but by the US and her allies. With their awesome resources and their influence that permeates every corner of the globe, the latter can have virtually anything their way.
So far, the Sudan government and the southern rebels have resolved the delicate issue of security arrangement. The parties have agreed to merge their armies and are now deliberating on the modalities of the implementation such as the location of the central command. Yet to be thrashed out are issues of wealth sharing, the status of Khartoum as the seat of government and the three disputed areas of Abyei, the Nuba Mountains and Southern Blue Nile.
But why the renewed US interest in Sudan’s peace negotiations?
The reasons are many and varied and they certainly transcend the US’s self-proclaimed roles of defending democracy and human rights.
