No one really wants to go into Darfur. But the left likes to use it as an example of our immorality.
Obama’s been in office now 100 days, surely as a good lefty he should be making movement towards going in and fixing Darfur.
No. The left just likes to use Darfur as an example against the neocons. “They don’t care, or they’d be in Darfur stopping genocide instead of in Iraq where things were fine.”
Now that the left can decide who and who not to invade there is no way they are going in there.
Today we get the first step in the decision to NOT go to Darfur. The LATimes explains how many experts don’t think that what’s going on in Darfur is genocide. Even though both Bush and Clinton’s administrations said it was.
A misconception that hundreds of people are dying each day in Darfur has led many in the West to push for emergency security measures such as military intervention, U.N. peacekeepers and no-fly zones, and to overlook larger issues such as stalled peace talks and millions of people dependent on foreign aid, said Thierry Durand, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders.
“The magnitude of violence in Darfur has been huge, but it’s not genocide,” Durand said. “The situation on the ground has not been an emergency since 2004. The real problem is the dependency in the camps. But the whole thing has become over-politicized.”
We won’t be going into Darfur. I’m glad of that, but just wanted to share how this is going to work out in the mind of the left.
Genocide ceased in Darfur on Jan. 20, 2009