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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2853
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 20, 2006 - 12:30 pm: | 
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You listen to the BBC and every night they have somebody screaming about what is going on in Darfur. You listen to Democracy Now or NPR and you hear the same thing--primarily because whoever is handling the anti Khartoum government pr campaign was savvy enough to give an airing to rape victims and get our femnists involved.
Nobody else is even paying it attention. None of the right wing talk shows, not the evening news.
I hark back to the war in Angola, where the U.S. kept just enough support going to Savimbi so the government couldn't win. Once they had their settlement it was all over for him--of course the poor people of Angola had to suffer years of war and still are stepping on land mines.
Is the U.S. and Britain doing the same thing in Darfur? Just doing enough to keep the rebels fighting? |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1049
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 08:25 pm: |
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"Nobody else is even paying it attention. None of the right wing talk shows, not the evening news."
And don’t expect them to. These are impoverished black Africans who now one cares about –not even other black Africans. I hope you don’t think Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity or FOX channel news are going to take the horrors of Darfur to the American public.
"I hark back to the war in Angola, where the U.S. kept just enough support going to Savimbi so the government couldn't win. Once they had their settlement it was all over for him--of course the poor people of Angola had to suffer years of war and still are stepping on land mines."
Yep! That was back during the cold war. The war started in 1974 after the Portuguese colony became independent. The chief antagonists are the Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the anti-Marxist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and Cuba supported the MPLA, while the United States, South Africa and China supported UNITA. Once the Cold War was over; –Seeee ya! We’re outta here! And the US bailed and left them. They were of no politically strategic significance anymore. Now it’s about diamonds and smuggling.
"Is the U.S. and Britain doing the same thing in Darfur? Just doing enough to keep the rebels fighting?"
Yep again! Sixty Minutes did a segment on Darfur yesterday. It was a gut wrenching show. The violence and genocide against the ethic blacks continues unabated. The US is compromising with the Sudanese government and trading intelligence from the Sudanese about Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in exchange for looking the other way about the ongoing black slavery, mass rape and genocide against the black Africans. No surprise or intrigue here. Business as usual…..
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