The SPLM’s Withdrawal: Sudan’s New Potentially Deadly Crisis

by Drima on October 30, 2007

This is the article which was supposed to be published about two weeks ago when the crisis initially popped up. Read it here.

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1 Andrew Brehm 10.30.07 at 3:12 pm: Excellent article. Short, to the point, and important.

It’s good that you point out the Bush administration’s role in this. The Americans will be needed to stabilise Sudan. Nobody else has the resources to help once peace is established.

Sudan is still the forgotten play on the stage of world news. We hear about every single death in Iraq (or so it seems), but who cares about the Sudanese? (And who actually cares about the Iraqis? The media who blame America for the crimes of terrorists certainly do not.)
2 Drima 10.30.07 at 11:56 pm: “It’s good that you point out the Bush administration’s role in this.”

Some very passionate people would strongly disagree with you.

When it comes to Sudan, if I had to pick between the foreign policies of Bill Clinton or Bush, I’d pick Bush.

What did Clinton do? Bomb a pharmaceuticals or ehm, “chemical weapons” factory and shove sanctions down our throats, sanctions which ended up affecting the people, not the government itself.
3 Andrew Brehm 10.31.07 at 9:35 am: “Some very passionate people would strongly disagree with you.”

They are part of the problem.

You can thank the “anti-war” crowd for the fact that few of the “caring” liberals in the west care about Sudan. Instead they pity the poor Iraqis and support the “resistance” against the Americans (despite the fact that the poor Iraqis support the Americans as long as the “resistance” is destroying their mosques and killing their children).

I say “anti-war” in quotes because I have never seen those people protest a war against Israel. They are not anti-war, they just took sides in the war. They are, if anything, “pro-Arab-nationalist” or “anti-Iraq”.

And the Sudanese suffer for it because nobody knows what’s going on in a country where there are REALLY several hundred thousand victims of a war.
4 Andrew Brehm 10.31.07 at 9:51 am: “Some very passionate people would strongly disagree with you.”

Let them make a point. I can see that the Sudanese president would strongly disagree. But I am totally used to mass murderers opposing George Bush and his policies. In fact, most violent people seem to oppose him (judging from the behaviour of the protesters when he visits a country in Europe, the continent known as the cradle of peace).
5 JMac 11.01.07 at 1:53 am: excellent writing, Drima.