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2016-08-17 Africa Horn

UN, Embassy Do Nothing As South Sudan Soldiers Gang Rape And Torture Americans

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-17 03:24|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 after Benghazi, what did they expect from this regime?

Posted by Frank G 2016-08-17 08:34|| 2016-08-17 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sympathetic, but aren't there other spots in the world that need aid workers, missionaries and do-gooders that are a bit, um, safer than SOUTH-FRIGGING SUDAN?

I mean, Haiti has decent people who need help. Ditto Guatemala. The Solomon Islands. There's no shortage of shit holes in the world today. If the people of South Sudan don't appreciate you maybe it's time to go elsewhere.

Posted by Steve White 2016-08-17 11:00|| 2016-08-17 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 If they want to help people in a war-torn hell-hole, why not Chicago?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-08-17 11:48|| 2016-08-17 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, I'd be perfectly willing to let the Sudanese or South Sudanese or whoever they are figure it out for themselves in the future.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-08-17 11:48|| 2016-08-17 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The harsh reality is that the US Embassy cannot do squat in situations like this. Most US citizens have a VERY poor understanding of what an Embassy can or can't do. We don't have a QRF ready to launch in case of emergency. I've actually had a person asks if the Embassy helicopter can go out and search for their missing family member - in Bangkok.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2016-08-17 12:23|| 2016-08-17 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Ambassador Airways is really pretty light in aircraft count, seat miles and service hubs.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-08-17 12:45|| 2016-08-17 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 The sad fact is that the tribal Nuer, Dinka and Equatorians have never, and will never, live in peace. The emerging South Sudan should have been divided in thirds. One third to the Bahr al-Ghazal Dinka, one-third the Nuer of the White Nile, and a third the equatorian ethnics who do manage to live together in peace.

Posted by Glairong Sforza7574 2016-08-17 13:24|| 2016-08-17 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 The sad fact is that the tribal Nuer, Dinka and Equatorians have never, and will never, live in peace.

It's my impression that separately none of them would be able to stand up against reconquest by the North African Sudanese, Glairong Sforza7574, who will then return to their jihadi raiding. So what is to be done?

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-17 17:01|| 2016-08-17 17:01|| Front Page Top

#9 The sad fact is that the tribal Nuer, Dinka and Equatorians have never, and will never, live in peace.

One day we'll get past all of this pointless navel-gazing and realize that "colonization" isn't always a bad thing, particularly when those being colonized are their own worst enemy.

Posted by Crusader 2016-08-17 18:24|| 2016-08-17 18:24|| Front Page Top

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