Last Sunday, the Toronto Star ran a column that said in the referendum that will make Southern Sudan independent from the Muslim North, "there is no crisis and no war looming." That observation alone seemed curiously unwarranted, considering that this has been Africa's longest running civil war.
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actually north Sudan looks to be the more likely disaster
the north has a massive, corrupt, inefficient govt including a number of militia that don't get along very well(which is one reason they lost a lot of soldiers during their attempts to control the south) --- without the south's oil and food production they are in trouble
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All the data in the article contradicts it's conclusion.
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Southern Sudan has, or at least has had, some unusual allies. Remember that there have been arrests of individuals trying to smuggle weapons in to support them against the North. These include a Priest, a Nigerian woman, the Israelis, the CIA, etc.
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Southern Sudan may not be the shining economic engine of Africa, but it is poised to grow rapidly because of oil and food production. Given a decade or two, it will be a country capable of feeding its own and exporting much needed food to its neighbors, sort of like Rhodesia did back in the day. The only way for the Northerners to stall or damage that possibility is to turn loose their Jajaweed genocide troops again.
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Shieldwolf Hi !; I like your train of thought. Great promise and left alone perhaps. Greed and fear my wreck your train of thought. It is truly something to be hoped for.
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I'm not so sure. Some of the North African lands were far enough away that their development of Islam was somewhat different in character. They are nested in Libya, if that's any cue.
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We don't often link other blogs here at the Burg; we figure you can get there and pro'ly read those blogs anyway.
But this rant is truly righteous. Mr. Surber wrote what a lot of us are thinking. The Left has behaved like the proverbial monkey at a zoo this past decade, and now they lecture us on civility?
As Mr. Surber says: bite me.
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Like their brethren in North Korea, the Lefties have finally played out a bad hand and didn't get the meek and avoidance response they've gotten for all their life. They're declaring the rightful response they got back a 'threat' and denouncing their targets actions to push right back. They really don't know what to do cause they look upon themselves, as all their sycophants tell them, as the chosen. How dare they be challenged. Intelligent creatures at this point would pull back and reassess the situation they've place themselves into cause the other guys aren't backing down anymore. They're above rational acts. They're running towards their Sarajevo moment.
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Maybe the tide is turning. Last week, after receiving criticism from the NAACP, the governor of Maine was quoted, "Tell 'em to kiss my butt. If they want to play the race card..."
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My comment was entirely serious, and I think this is essentially PJ's funeral dirge for the Times. I don't know that it's late so much as final and unrecoverable. I tend to agree with him. Just odd to see it from him devoid of humor, but wholly on point. Very appropriate.
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