Thursday, September 09, 2004
"Awww...Sanctions? But how will we commit genocide now?"
After a couple of years of people being systematically removed and/or killed in the Sudan by Government supported militias, our government finally acknowledged that what's happening there is Genocide.
I'm not sure what the standard is that made them finally use the label. I figure it must work like the record industry. 100,000 dead is a tragedy. 500,000 is human rights violation. 1,000,000 is genocide.
So, first off. Congrats to the Sudan for finally achieving that tough to get label. Of course, when we see a country laboring under the thumb of a brutal, genocidal dictatorship we do what any moral country would.... we go ask the UN to impose sanctions. This is because nothing stops the destruction of innocent lives faster than sanctions. Just look how it brought Iraq and North Korea quickly into line.
And with the quick and decisive request for sanctions, we can now sleep comfortably knowing that with a nasty, hard fought election on the way, our media will be ignoring the tragedy for months to come.
If we were really a moral country, don't you think it would be consistent with our actions in Iraq (with the final reason to go in being to "liberate them") if we were to not wait for useless sanctions and instead unilaterally enter the Sudan to protect those in danger? Ha. I'm just kidding. We'd never do that. They're just harmless black folk over there. Nothing to do with us.
I'm not sure what the standard is that made them finally use the label. I figure it must work like the record industry. 100,000 dead is a tragedy. 500,000 is human rights violation. 1,000,000 is genocide.
So, first off. Congrats to the Sudan for finally achieving that tough to get label. Of course, when we see a country laboring under the thumb of a brutal, genocidal dictatorship we do what any moral country would.... we go ask the UN to impose sanctions. This is because nothing stops the destruction of innocent lives faster than sanctions. Just look how it brought Iraq and North Korea quickly into line.
And with the quick and decisive request for sanctions, we can now sleep comfortably knowing that with a nasty, hard fought election on the way, our media will be ignoring the tragedy for months to come.
If we were really a moral country, don't you think it would be consistent with our actions in Iraq (with the final reason to go in being to "liberate them") if we were to not wait for useless sanctions and instead unilaterally enter the Sudan to protect those in danger? Ha. I'm just kidding. We'd never do that. They're just harmless black folk over there. Nothing to do with us.
