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UN under pressure by US to get troops into war torn Darfur Region
2006-05-11
(SomaliNet) The UN is under pressure by the United States (US) to get peacekeepers into Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Euro news reported Wednesday. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, during a Security Council meeting in New York on Tuesday, urged the United Nations to pass a strong resolution to help implement last week's Darfur peace deal, saying it was time to end western Sudan's "long nightmare".

Currently some 7,000 African troops are striving to keep the peace in the region. This figure is approximately the size of France. However, Khartoum is yet to give a UN force the green light. The US, which unlike the UN describes the situation in Darfur as genocide, has appealed directly to the Sudanese president to let the troops in.
Posted by:Fred

#6   no desire to got there and try to physically un-fuck that place.

I hate to be so cynical, but I'm not sure that is even possible at this stage of the game with the governments that are in place. It is going to take more than strong resolutions from the UN. Hell, the UN can't even agree that genocide is taking place.

Of course, there is a bright side: the poor Africans are not being brutalized by their evil European colonial opressors.
Posted by: SteveS   2006-05-11 23:15  

#5  I kind of concur w/smn. We need to keep our focus & finish the job in Iraq, monitor Afghanistan, and prepare/train for Iran. I have no issue w/our statesmen diplomatically pressuring the UN to do something about Darfur but I've no desire to got there and try to physically un-fuck that place.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2006-05-11 09:55  

#4  I'd be willing to bet if the UN could be convinced that sending "peacekeepers" (I prefer the term kiddie diddlers) to Dafur runs counter to US or Israeli interests, they would be there tomorrow.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2006-05-11 08:04  

#3  Yes indeed. It's an African thing, we in the west wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-05-11 04:49  

#2  Super "W" wants to fly in there with his bright red cape and save the blacks...he should save his men for Iran and the Red Dragon; down the road!! Let Kofi and the AU handle the mess of Sudan!
Posted by: smn   2006-05-11 04:19  

#1  But, but there's tea on Friday
Posted by: Captain America   2006-05-11 01:00  

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