Unless you've been living under a rock, there is a terrible humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
My question is: what is the U.S doing, if anything, to help out the refugees and stop the Janjaweed Arab militia from further killing?

I do not think a lot of people are aware of this situation, including myself (I guess I live under a rock ) But on a serious note, maybe you can post a url that explians briefly the situation, or explain it yourself. As for now, I cannot comment on it. Sounds interesting though..."U.S." is in it...

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sudan/darfur.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3496731.stm

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Originally posted by dJohn Unless you've been living under a rock, there is a terrible humanitarian crisis in Sudan. My question is: what is the U.S doing, if anything, to help out the refugees and stop the Janjaweed Arab militia from further killing?

Do you feel that it is the U.S.'s responsibility to stand up and do something about it? Why isn't the all powerful UN doing anything? Why is it OK for the world to demand the U.S.'s help in one humanitarian crisis and then virtually turn their collective backs on the U.S. when we decide to do something?

Nonetheless, I haven't really been keeping up with who's done what so far, but I know that plenty of public figures have spoken out about it. I'd like to see something done down there, but I don't know what the best solution is to the problem. In the end, the U.S. will create 1 more ally and 1 more enemy. Right?

Good, Shakka's online here. Where the f*ck is the UN and where do they fit into the picture of world affairs? They allowed Rwanda to happen without a blink, so why should we think they would do something about Sudan? Everyone always comes callling on the US to save the F*cking Day and we're left with a heap of shit after we destroy all organized armed forces. Peacekeeping is more like war these days and everyone is eating popcorn and watching the US show. That's about BS.


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BTW, How does some motherf*cker from Ghana like Koffi Annan think he has any power in world affairs? Fire the bastard and put someone in charge of the damn UN for a change. I probably need to start another thread.


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Originally posted by Shakka Do you feel that it is the U.S.'s responsibility to stand up and do something about it? Why isn't the all powerful UN doing anything? Why is it OK for the world to demand the U.S.'s help in one humanitarian crisis and then virtually turn their collective backs on the U.S. when we decide to do something?

UN is actually doing something, the problem is that the UN arent any stronger than its member countries. Many european countries and the US have done a share, but NOT enough, i dont know which countries who had done their share well, so i wont blame anyone specific, to only blame the US is stupid though. I think that african union however has offered to send many peace keeping troops to the region, with financial support from the west. anyway, its crap that the media support on this cris is so bad, that there actually is people (in a political forum..) who has no clue about what is happening scares me!

Let's lay Sudan on the French. Make them go in there and fix things. Koffi can send a few of his fellow countrymen from Ghana to back up the force, BWAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!


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Originally posted by dJohn Unless you've been living under a rock, there is a terrible humanitarian crisis in Sudan. My question is: what is the U.S doing, if anything, to help out the refugees and stop the Janjaweed Arab militia from further killing?

I actually created a thread about this topic a couple to a few months back. What it came down to is not what the US is doing, is that the world is doing nothing. The US shouldn't have anything to do with it. The world wants the US out of messing with world problems and so they should be granted from this time in history on. It should be handled by the UN. If the UN does nothing then it lies only on the UN's shoulders.

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Amen, bro. With that gomer Kaffi Annan at the helm as well. What has the f*cking world come to when they elect a motherf*cking n-word from Ghana to be in charge???? Holy smokers!!!! Is Ghana next to the Black Congo or Zumbuttwi?


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It's been a while since I last read of it (a single month! - there goes my memory ), but I vaguely remember that the US have done quite a lot on this issue. They were the ones pushing for a UN resolution condemning the Sudanese government, and labelling the events as "genocide". When this one failed to get through the security council (because of France and Russia AFAIR), Colin Powell went ahead and used the label anyway, thereby commiting the US to isolate Sudan economically.
Of course, it's nothing like the full scale operation in Iraq, and it seems to be the neighbouring countries who bear most of the burden of refugees, but in this case I think that the Bush administration should recieve the credits they deserve.

The situation has to be labeled a "genocide", but because there isn't enough evidence to support this, the UN can't do anything to completly solve this problem. Bunch of BS if you ask me...under what conditionsis a situation, genocide? If you reach a certain quota on deaths?

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Do you feel that it is the U.S.'s responsibility to stand up and do something about it? Why isn't the all powerful UN doing anything? Why is it OK for the world to demand the U.S.'s help in one humanitarian crisis and then virtually turn their collective backs on the U.S. when we decide to do something?

Nobody demanded the US to help, but you'd figure if they have the expenditures to waste on the "war" in Iraq, then I'm guessing they have some resources to offer any sort of aid whatsoever to this crisis.