Hey George Clooney, I hope you and your well-meaning but rather sadly incompetent liberal friends at Save Darfur and Enough Project are happy.
Great, the arrest warrant has been issued, now what? Huh, now what?
What about you Nicholas Kristof?
Listen guys, I appreciate your well-meaning sentiments. I really do. We all pretty much agree on the goals: a peaceful, stable, and democratic Sudan.
Where we sharply part ways is on the means, and to put it bluntly, I think yours are utter shit.
(New York) - The Sudanese government’s announcement that it will expel 10 international aid agencies places the lives of more than 1 million people in Darfur at risk, Human Rights Watch said today.
What’s your plan now Clooney and Co.?
Sit back and wait for the super reliable UN and so-called international community to pursue… yeah, what’s that thing called again, wait, let me remember, oh yeah “aggressive diplomacy”…
… to change the evil hideous ways of our deeply “beloved” Omar Hassan al-Bashir, aka the “protector” of Sudan and Islam waging a jihad of pure awesomeness against the Evil Western Zionist Piggy Ape CrUSAders, right?
Seriously, what’s your plan?
Lobby, what’s his name again, yeah, President Barack Hussein Obama to do something, anything right? Pursue “aggressive diplomacy” too right?
Right.
As if the economy is in such wonderful shape and American tax payers are in the mood for another US-led military adventure abroad.
Ladies and gentlemen, I wish my predictions were wrong, but it is precisely because of the above quoted text that I’ve been reluctant to support the ICC warrant as explained in this previous post of mine.
For the millionth time, the pursuit of justice is highly important but not at the great risk of endangering the very people facing the injustice in the first place.
Alex De Waal, a true Sudan-expert and scholar who’s actually lived in Darfur and written numerous books on Sudan agrees (HRW’s Richard Dicker and Scholar, Mediator Alex de Waal Debate ICC Indictment of Sudanese President for Mass Killings in Darfur).
Julie Flint agrees too. She’s another real Sudan-expert, unlike the other experts or so-called Sudan experts who are dangerously out of touch.
Here’s to hoping the humanitarian situation doesn’t worsen into a disaster.
SudaneseThinker
SudaneseThinker
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I admire both Flint and de-Wahl and am bothered by the fact there is a warrant without a plan of action - not surprising since the plans as they were were never that good to begin with and never carried out to their end. My belief is that somewhere in the middle is the answer but then again I don’t live there.
I don’t disparage Save Darfur or Enough but having been on some of their recent teleconferences I admit to being slightly disturbed, but I also think looking at the situation as de-Wahl does , usually from a totally academic seat, isn’t the complete answer.
George- dear George is trying, but he does have to be back for his appearance eon ER this week.
dirty muslim e-books kind of rock.
UN, What’s that ? a bunch of self reproducted administration servants who cares for their own salvation
Sudanese refugees demonstrating in Israel for the ICC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGa2_8tgsKw
If Bashir wanted to let millions die, he would have already done it. He had the power to expel the aid agencies all the time, he didn’t need an ICC indictment for it. This was about to happen sooner or later.
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