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2004-10-18 Africa: Horn

African Leaders Discuss Sudanese Conflict

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Posted by Fred 2004-10-18 1:04:42 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 actually Chad seems pretty serious about this. Teh egyptians and Libyans are likely to try to protect their arab pals. Nigeria could be the swing "vote". Of course id be happier if Uganda and Rwanda were involved.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-18 1:37:00 PM|| 2004-10-18 1:37:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not clear on Egypt's current relationship with the Sudan. It has varied in a real love / hate fest over the years. I think many educated Egyptians see the Sudan as a "lost" part of Egypt, subject to future recovery.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-10-18 1:51:02 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-10-18 1:51:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 as with most things these, days, nobody really redraws maps. Thats not legitimate. You exercise influence. Syria over Lebanon, forex. Egypt, maybe, over Gaza. Jordan, KSA, Iran, all trying to influence Iraq. Pakland historically trying to find proxies to run afghanistan, versus russian and iranian proxies.

My sense is that egypt has some influence over current govt in Sudan, and would like to increase it. And so they have been taking a sympathetic line to Khartoum.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-18 2:03:31 PM|| 2004-10-18 2:03:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 A simple nuke on the center of Khartoum would reshape the entire Middle East, and put a stop to some of the stupidest waste of human lives this world has seen since Hitler exterminated the Jews. It would piss off Egypt, scare the bejesus out of everybody else, make the leftists crap their pants, and solve a WHOLE LOT of problems. Most of the problems today is that everybody's allowed to act like a teenager, and nobody wants to play parent. As long at the juveniles get away with it, it will continue and escalate. That's the major error Carter and Clinton made, and it's time to put a stop to all of it. We need to use our most SERIOUS consequences, so that next time we propose something more reasonable, people will be quite willing to accept it. If we're to be forced into the role of world policeman, we need to do it right.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-10-18 2:28:19 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-10-18 2:28:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 OP, I still like the idea of mystery black helicopter/gunships paying nighttime visits to Janjaweed camps...

Posted by mojo 2004-10-18 4:49:21 PM|| 2004-10-18 4:49:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 It's kinda late for lunch but early for dinner, hmmmmm, let's drink then go to dinner. But we'll use the time to plan tomorrow's lunch.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-18 6:11:07 PM|| 2004-10-18 6:11:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hehe Mojo, mount a couple of strobelights on some Gunships and viola - instant UFO's.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-10-18 6:20:55 PM|| 2004-10-18 6:20:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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