Darfur update: Sudanese president says no UN force
This is rather as expected. I wonder if Jack Layton, Senator Dallaire, Keith Martin, David Kilgour and all the other Canadian do-gooders who want Canada to "do something" now favour our joining in an invasion of Sudan. But who else would join us in the invading? Or maybe our "diplomatic muscle" will persuade the president to change his mind. Bets?
President Omar al-Bashir vowed on Tuesday that he will never allow U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur, his strongest rejection yet of the United Nations' plan to try to halt violence in the war-torn region.Update: It's all a Jewish plot. Of course.
"This shall never take place," al-Bashir said of the U.N. deployment. "These are colonial forces, and we will not accept colonial forces coming into the country."
"They want to colonize Africa, starting with the first sub-Saharan country to gain its independence. If they want to start colonization in Africa, let them chose a different place," he told reporters at a press conference alongside South African President Thabo Mbeki...
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 4:33 p.m.
8 Comments:
To be clear Mark, are you mocking people who want to do something active about a genocide to score points?
lance, that would be filled under "duh", but doesn't even begin to do anything like remotely answering my question.
filed... jebus, more coffee needed.
Cameron: I'm mocking those who simply do not have a clue about reality--or if they do choose to ignore it in pursuit of political points. Typical of far too much in Canadian politics.
Canada is in no position to do anything substantive (other than aid) to affect events in Darfur, so we should just shut up, instead of bleating for the sake of making ourselves feel good and helping no-one.
Just keep sending more relief money--something practical we can do.
Mark
Ottawa
Mark, then you need to be more precise. Because that is not how I read it.
Cameron: Perhaps you have did not follow the links within his post nor read the numerous othe posts on Darfur.
Mark
Ottawa
Cameron: A letter in the Globe today that I think makes a similar point (via "Norman's Spectator"):
http://www.members.shaw.ca/nspector4/LETT.htm
"Another fine mess
Oh dear. It seems that Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has vowed to lead "resistance" against any United Nations forces that enter the troubled Darfur region (Sudan's President Rejects UN Peacekeepers in Darfur -- on-line edition, June 20). This will certainly confuse things for all those Canadians who want us to leave Afghanistan and go to Darfur instead. So, my fellow pacifist "peacekeeping" Canadians, where do we go now?
JAN BURTON Toronto"
Mark
Ottawa
And it still mocks those of us who get that peacekeeping is not what Layton thinks it is but still would like something done in Darfur.
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