If we must invade Iraq to spread democracy and junk, can't we stop the genocide in Sudan?

Question

I mean, they are destroying villages, raping women, and burning children alive.

How can we just sit by and watch that?
It's Rewanda all over again.

Hmmm, people seem to think I believe America is spreading democracy (and not trying to boost their oil supplies---which they are) but I do not.

That was my halfhearted attempt at sarcasm.

I just want to know why America isn't, you know, trying to help everyone. Not just the oiltastic nations.
---and the ones that got into a tiff with their daddies.

Answer 1

The United States is trying so hard to appease Muslim nations... which is okay... and not Terrorists like the EU. Sudan is the first thing the AU, African Union, has to resolve. Plus the victims in Sudan are Christians... no one cares about Christians today. Sudan, like much of Africa is Poor and if the U.S.A doesn't do anything about this terrorist organizations will set up a stronghold in Africa.

Answer 2

Well, I dont have an answer for you, wish I did, but the easiest solution is just to sit back and watch, as the world has done in every major violation of human rights since the begining of time, wish the UN would do something but it has proven incapable of doing anything without the backing of the United States, and the US is too busy in Iraq to do anything in the Sudan.


I thought you might have been sincere, should have read the rest, you are a simple fool, explain to me how we are bolstering our oil suppiles in Iraq you fool, if we wanted to bolser our oil supplies we should have invaded Iran, Venezuela, or for god's sake Canada because it would have made much more sense.

Answer 3

To date, there have been 200,000 people slaughtered and another 2 1/2 million driven from their homes, Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has forbidden any outside "interference," despite a UN resolution authorizing a 20,000 troop peace keeping force.

Can you imagine the back lash if President Bush "invaded" yet another country, regardless of the honorable or moral intentions?

The Arab militias have raped, slaughtered and murdered for over 3 1/2 years with pretty much impunity.

Apparently, according to the self-absorbed, pacifist, anti war nut bags in this country, there can be no good reason for intervention in another country's affairs. (reference, Iraq)

Sad, but true.

Answer 4

Are you saying that we should invade & occupy the Sudan?
Maybe that is necessary, but I think it needs a real debate & hopefully broad international support. Stopping the slaughter would be the right thing to do, but honestly, we have no national interests there. We do not have unlimited resources. Where is the rest of the world?

Answer 5

this is the problem with Bush's "all i wanted to do was kick out Saddam and spread democracy" explanation for Iraq. if we are doing it for Iraq, we should do it for all of the other countries in similar situations, but we do not. Why not? Because Bush only wanted oil.

Answer 6

It's because Iraq was an "imminent threat". As long as the Sudanese aren't aiming big pointy nuclear warheads at us, the president doesn't care. (Well to be completely honest they don't even have to have weapons, just have an idea of them)

Secondly, we need to end the poverty and injustice in America before we go out policing the world.

Answer 7

because the chinese are into sudan bigtime now, buying all their oil, building roads, factories and airports for them. if the united states upsets the chinese by interfering in sudan they may take their money back which is financing the deficit. very cynical, iknow, but probably true.

Answer 8

The United States can't be everywhere. People here are complaining because we are in the middle east as it is.

Answer 9

The European Union should be the ones stepping in to stop it and then rebuild the country!!

Answer 10

We cannot save & support the entire world...
We must concentrate our energies on those areas
involving our national best interest...