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July 29, 2004

NOW Bush listens to Arabs -- when he shouldn't

In Iraq, Bush didn't give a rat's ass what the Arab world, or anyone else, thought. But the Arab world was right and he was wrong.

On Sudan, the Arab states are wrong, continuing to back one of their own, no matter how racist and murderous it gets. What does Bush do? He listens to them:

The United States on Thursday softened the threat of U.N. sanctions against Sudan in a draft resolution pressuring the Khartoum government to rein in Arab militias in the western Darfur region.

And, repeating Clinton's cowardice in Rwanda in 1994, the administration is careful to avoid actually using the G-word, which would not only legalize but mandate international intervention.

Seven Security Council members oppose even sanctions on Sudan, let alone the use of force to stop the genocide.

Even Angola, a black African country. Shameful.

Posted by Tyrone at 11:16 AM | Comments (0)

July 21, 2004

Bomb the bastards. Now.

It's time to bomb Khartoum.

The word should go out to the racist murderers of the Sudanese government: Call off the janjaweed within 10 days or we'll kill as many Arabs in Khartoum as blacks have died in the south and west.

At this point I have no sympathy or compassion left for Sudan. Clinton let them off way too easy, just bombing an aspirin factory. And any strike on the Sudanese Arabs, no matter how brutal, is likely to save more lives than it takes.

The government of Sudan hates black people. Nothing else can explain their consistent record of terror, murder, rape, and slavery for over two decades.

This is a racist government that, as soon as one war ends (the southern war with the SPLA) begins another (in Darfur). It will never stop attacking black Africans that it literally considers to be its slaves.

Indeed, the parallels to Serbia in 1999 are considerable. Now, as then, we have a regime with a consistent pattern of racist terror. Now, as then, air power stands a good chance of leading to the regime's overthrow. The only difference is that the Sudanese government is much, much worse than Milosevic's.

There have been polite diplomatic efforts that have led to naught. We need a credible threat of force. Ground troops are effectively unavailable (thanks to the Iraq war) but air power can and should be used to maximum effect.

Posted by Tyrone at 01:58 AM | Comments (0)