How do we fix DARFUR?

it isn't a simple problem to fix.

larbie wrote:

it isn't a simple problem to fix.

No s*** Sherlock. But we gotta do something besides sitting on our asses.

Reploy the troops in Iraq to Darfur.

The biggest disaster is in Palestine and Gaza, millions of refugees for 60 years, unless they all resettlement/re-unification of the Palestinians to return to their stolen land and homes, there will be nuclear terrorism in the Middle East. That\'s Armageddon.

Let's start by making TShirts that say "Darfur is for lovers"

All proceeds will go to whatever bad stuffs is going on over there

This kid has the African Runner's body type, watchout bekele and lagat!

turkey leg wrote:

What do we have to do fix Darfur?

Discover oil within its borders; the entire US military will be there in two days.

Certainly, our government hasn't done everything it can to help. But you also must understand that until very recently the Sudanese government has cooperated with hardly anybody besides the African Union (even then there's not much to write home about). We have to get over the idea that we can just send in diplomats or troops somewhere and magically fix all the worlds problems. We're America, not King Midas. The solution is a lot more than "we need to stop sitting our our bums." Maybe I'm just tired from my race this morning but I can't really fathom intelligently discussing this issue with any depth on an internet running message board.

Sudan has oil. We're well aware of this. China invests heavily in Sudan's oil industry.

China owns Nike too, and look how mush Nike has done for track and field. Show some gratitude to China.

F@ck Durfur! Can find the same garbage in any African country or any US city. So if you're so ashamed, why aren't you doing something about he f'd up stuff in your own city?

since when is darfur america's responsibility?

turkey leg wrote:

But we gotta do something besides sitting on our asses.

So can you elaborate on what "something" actually is? Or do you expect 'someone else' to come up with "something"?

Isn't most the world right now telling the US not to be so imperialist and sticking their nose (and military) in other people's affairs in Afghanistan and Iraq? But then they want the US to stick their nose (and military) in Sudan?

Find money somewhere to pay a PMC like Blackwater to go in on a "peacekeeping" mission. I'd like to see how the Janjaweed stand up against a bunch of crazy and extremely well equipped ex-special ops guys.

realism wrote:

since when is darfur america's responsibility?

That is a very good question Mr. realism.

Just to add onto that, since when did Iraq become America's responsibility?? I am just wondering.

Dafur, as someone once said, is Rwanda in slow motion.

In Rwanda, about 800,000 to 1 million people were slaugthered in 100 days.

In Dafur, so far, about half a million people have died within the last 5 or so years.

This number will certainly double if the world community doesn't act. I fault the UN for dragging its feet but every citizen of the world should feel morally obligated to act in whatever manner they can.

please realize that the only reason that iraq was invaded was to get an American presence in the middle east - not for oil or to get rid of a dictator.National security is our problem, not Darfur's social injustices.

If the UN was worth a damn, it should do something. Obviously nothing has been done by the UN, which tells you what it is worth. I thought that the US should be staying out of other countries? ... we all heard that broken record. We need to get out of Iraq - and if we have to scorch the earth for "stability", leaving no one left to fight, then so be it.

We don't, they have to settle their affairs and even if it is a method we (in the US of A) disapprove of, or do not understand, our actions in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq should show that we should stay out militarily until we can get a true handle, or understanding of the situation.

One could ask Mr. Kofi Annan about HIS actions as UN Secretary General in the Rwandan catastrophe, then inquire how the current Secretary General wants to deal with African chaos.

Unless, like that Columbia U professor, DeGenerate...excuse me, DeGenova...you want 'a million Mogadishus'.

The arrogance and ignorance of the situation in Iraq exhitibited by the current, and greatly loathed, US administration would, one would PRAY, be enough to discourage American military action ANYWHERE for a space.

Of course I am likely to be totally ignored.

Saddam Hussein killed millions of people and the USA removed him and is now considered the bad guy. Why go into another situation like Darfur and get nothing but crapped on for it?

The best solution is for every self-righteous and lazy leftist to put a "Save Darfur" bumpersticker on their car. The same strategy freed Tibet from the communist yoke, surely Darfur can be saved similarly. If Darfur isn't freed this way, at least they can feel they've done all they could.