Does the genocide in Darfur trouble your conscience?
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/31822.htm
http://www.darfurscores.org/darfur
If yes, are you willing to contact your senators and representatives and tell them how you feel?
http://www.darfurscores.org/blog/2007/03/22/697
http://www.senate.gov/
If no, why not?
2007-04-26 06:10:46 · 17 answers · asked by Roni 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I hear you balrog. I definitely agree that we shouldn't go in there like Iraq. But I do think we should hit Sudan in the pocketbook and totally divest all interests in the country including any company with financial holding in the country. Although the US doesn't conduct any trade with Sudan, many US states and Universities have stock holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec (oil companies which help finance the genocide in Darfur). The Sudanese government puts 60-70 percent of its revenue into this genocide. I don't want my tax dollars going to murder. I don't want to do business with any company who has Sudanese stock holdings.
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2007-04-26 06:27:59 · update #1
I have written my government officials.. many times.. I have talked about it in my school and church... I have signed petitions and sent money and clothing....and I feel like it is all not helping.
Our government needs to do something besides considering sanctions. Why are we not spending billions there to help save peoples lives.. instead of spending billions in Iraq to kill people? Somebody please tell me why?
2007-04-26 06:17:02 · answer #1 · answered by Debra H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why is it that people are so concerned about the people in Darfur but they didn't feel the same way about the mass murder of the Iraqi people under Saddam? Darfur is a tragedy but I think the government has learned its lesson and it realizes that the left won't support any kind of military intervention there either and that is the only thing that will stop the violence.
2007-04-26 13:18:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is terrible, but I don't think the US should be leading this effort, for numerous reasons, not the least of which is the possibility of a large Muslim reaction against our involvement.
Unfortunately, the problem is that only the US is capable of doing something, and would otherwise be willing to take the risk.
I'm more troubled by the constant failure of the UN and the EU to do anything. The failure of the Muslim community in Africa to even notice what the Sudanese government is doing is fairly typical.
2007-04-26 13:23:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't weigh on my conscience, since I'm not doing it. I recognize that it's a horrible thing, though...
I'm afraid that the US gov isn't going to do anything effective about the situation. The only way to end the genocide in Darfur would be to bring in military forces and destroy the side perpetrating the genocide. Fight genocide with genocide? Well, if it's justified for a police officer to kill a murder to stop him from commiitting another murder, perhaps. But, as weveryone knows, the US is not the World's Policeman.
2007-04-26 13:16:01 · answer #4 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think the situation in Darfur needs to be addressed. It would seem to me to be a much more noble cause to defend the people of Darfur than it is to defend a people (Iraq) who know and want nothing but war and strife, which has been their way of life for thousands of years, and if there remains another thousand years, they will still be practicing hostilities in that region of the world.
2007-04-26 13:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it horrifies me. There is no excuse for this to have happened or that it continues to happen. We are spending billions on a useless war perpetrated by lies, when we see and hear about these atrocities going on in Darfur. It disgusts me. I wonder if these poor people were white would this be continuing? Do people think because these are just black people, it doesn't matter?
2007-04-26 13:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop the genocide in Philadelphia. A murder a day plus more so far!
2007-04-26 13:15:35 · answer #7 · answered by J S 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
JUST ANOTHER REASON TO GET THE USA INTO MORE WAR . WE NEED TO HELP THE POOR IN THIS COUNTRY.
WHEN DARFUR IS DONE AND OVER WITH ANOTHER PROBLEM OF THE SAME CAPACITY WILL RISE UP. SHOULD AMERICA BE THE POLICE IN THE WORLD? IF YES THEN WE NEED TO FIGHT IN EVERY PART OF THIS EARTH WHERE ATROCITIES ARE HAPPENING. THE UN HAS TO STEP UP IT'S COMBAT IN THESE PROBLEM AREAS.
2007-04-26 13:15:33 · answer #8 · answered by strike_eagle29 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
would like the U.S. to help.
but I don't want us to occupy another country.
two at a time is More than enough.
can we help them without sending in a lot of troops that will get stuck there ?
Is a fast in and out possible ?
2007-04-26 14:04:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. What I don't like are the people who complain about our protecting Iraq, but want us to go help Darfur.
2007-04-26 13:14:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋