Excerpt from Vass, on Darfur. I will be following this subject from time to time on both blogs.
Some may recall that I recently raised the question of what is happening with HR 180 IH. You may not recall the name it has in the House of Representatives, but it’s also known as Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007. This is one item of several that are sitting in Congress waiting for some action to be taken by the nation. Not everyoe is aware of this but at least one person had his YouTube question presented to the Democratic candidates in their recent debate.
Only 4 of the Democratic hopefuls were given the chance to respond. They were Governor Richardson, Senator Biden, Senator Clinton, and Former Senator Gravel. In my opinion none were satisfactory answers, though they were decent soundbites….
As for Senator Clinton, she got a bit of all the best answers and combined them, mostly. She agreed on the need for sanctions. She agreed on a no-fly zone. But she would not agree to place ANY troops on the ground.
Senators Dodd and Obama (as well as Biden and Clinton) co-sponsored Senate Resolution 559 (introduced on Sept. 7, 2006), which encouraged President Bush to work with NATO and the UN in establishing a no-fly zone.
Ok, first off a no-fly zone just does not work. Not in England (Germans during WWII), Viet-Nam, Bosnia, Iraq nor Darfur. … Stopping a plane flying overhead does not stop AK-47 and machete wielding troops from killing people.
Economic and political pressure is one option, but like a no-fly zone it does not stop anything. Cuba, North Korea, and Iraq have all had (or have) sanctions for years if not decades. Yet North Korea has nuclear weapons, Cuba still is a Communist dictatorship and we attacked Iraq. …
Face it, it takes troops. Just like it did in Bosnia. …
Full post found on www.mvass.com
2 comments:
Ground forces are needed to stop the massacres in Darfur. While they discuss, people are dying. The world turned its back on Rwanda and saw what happened in 1994. Twelve years after the Rwandan genocide, will the world take action in Darfur?
Angeline Bandon-Bibum
www.herliterarydream.com
Hello Angeline, Thank you for dropping by.
Not sure if you checked the full post at my other blog, www.mvass.com . On that post I go into the cost of the delay, and why action with ground forces is required.
In addition I compare the efforts America made on behalf of Bosnia, and the fact we have done nothing for Darfur.
If you haven't read that I suggest you take a look. But I am glad to see that I am not the only ne that is aware and upset with this situation.
At least we are in good company with the likes of Mr. Don Cheadle, Mr. George Clooney, and Mr. Matt Damon all involved and leaning their star power to the cause.
Hopefully we will act as a nation before things get far worse. It's already a shame we have not done enough in the last 4 years. To wait longer is almost criminal.
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