Sudan And Darfur--What Is To Be Done?

That is the $64 question. The US is pushing for more sanctions against the country with the hope that the genocide will subside. Genocide? The US is one of the only countries that is calling it that; the rest of the world has shied away from using the term. Why do other countries balk at the use of the term? Easy, they would have to act! As it is now they can condemn and bitch and meet on the Darfur situation in Sudan, but they do not have to actually do anything.

But for all the chest thumping by the US, they are still cooperating with the government of Sudan on a couple of issues. Most notable is the WOT, which Sudan is feeding the US intel on foreign fighters entering Iraq. At a recent intel meeting in Sudan, the countries that are the most vocal about Darfur were there, UK, France and the US. The Sudanese intel chief, Ghosh, gets regular trips to the US to meet with the CIA and is housed in a ritzy hotel and catered to for all his wants and needs.

Sanctions are a cop out; they are used to look as if something is being done to stop the madness but in reality, the abortion goes on and on. So what of the people in Darfur? They will continue to suffer and die, while the rest of the world carries on, business as usual.

When will the world get its act together and demand that the people of Darfur be left to live in peace? Probably not in my lifetime! The world will continue to use band aids on the gunshot wound that is Darfur.


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