How do you feel about Darfur?

Question

I was just curious as to your opinions on the whole Darfur situation.

Also state your political stance [liberal/moderate/conservative]

Thanks (:

Answer 1

A shame. The world should act, and it seems that if America does not lead, no one else will.

Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? I would think that they would be out there defending their "Mother-land."

I guess face time with the cameras is not as great with Darfur as it is with the firing of Don Imus. I think these guys need to get their priorities straight, you think?

Answer 2

I just figure, why even bother anymore with our foreign policy. No matter what we do to help, we are always criminalized by the world and the liberals here in the US! If we leave Iraq, genocide will happen, which is no different than Darfur. If we go to Darfur, which is considered a civil war, we'd be getting involved in the very thing the democrats are saying why we should leave Iraq; because it's a civil war! You can't do anything right to please these liberals here and abroad! The UN and AU should be the ones spending all the funds and pouring troops in to stabilize the conflict!

I'm a conservative leaning Libertarian.

Answer 3

I honestly think NATO should intervene. Not the UN because they are good for nothing. NATO lead the peacekeeping force in Bosnia and we see how that turned out. NATO should be sent in to protect the people ,eliminate those who commit genocide, and assist the African Union. Most Peacekeeping missions don't authorize offense but in the case of Darfur these killers needed to be hunted down and brought to justice. I guess this makes me conservative because I never hear liberals talk about solving the situation with military action.

Answer 4

This is probably one of those issues where political stance won't make any difference. Regardless of where you fall in the left-right continuum, the situation in Darfur is horrible and inexcusable. I imagine only the Sudanese government can figure out a way to justify it.

Answer 5

But at this very moment, genocide is taking place again -- this time, in Darfur in western Sudan. Again, the world has been slow to react to the massacre of Muslims in that country. But thanks be to God, the world is finally being awakened, albeit slowly. Eight months ago, President Bush ordered the administration to declare Darfur a genocide.

This should have triggered all kinds of responses from the UN and other nations, but sadly, it did not. So last week when Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, visited President Bush in the Oval Office, Bush pressured him directly and personally. Then the president announced last Friday in a speech in Florida that he was asking NATO to provide troops on an immediate basis while the UN is organizing a peacekeeping military force. As Bush said in his statement, "There has to be a consequence for people abusing their fellow citizens."

Well, three cheers for the president. We also owe a great debt to Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.), who has been pleading with American political officials to act on Darfur. We're indebted as well to a reporter for the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, who has visited Darfur five times and has written eloquently about his experiences there.

These and others have told us of conditions almost too appalling to imagine: the government of Sudan deliberately murdering its own people. Kristof described a "land [that] stinks of fear and death," where "you just pass burned village after burned village after burned village"; a land where children die of starvation and women are constantly being gang-raped -- if they haven't already been wiped out by militia attacks.

If you are horrified by what is happening in Sudan -- and you must be -- I urge you to write or call your senators, or congressman, or the White House today. If you call us here at BreakPoint (1-877-322-5527), we'll be glad to give you addresses and phone numbers.

Americans have repeatedly spent our treasure and shed our blood to protect individual lives and human dignity from being trampled upon. A biblical worldview demands that we do no less. As God is the Author of creation and each individual life, we believe that people have inherent dignity and worth, no matter what their standing in life or their religion.

It's hard not to see a great irony here: All of this is going on at the very time that Muslims across the world are busy vilifying Western culture. All across the Middle East and in Europe, Muslim mobs are rioting. But that doesn't change the fact that, according to our worldview, we have a duty to help those of all faiths and cultures, even those who may be rioting against us. The world can plainly see the differences in the worldviews of Christianity and Islam. The biblical worldview is the only one that truly respects human dignity, and that's why we are the ones who must work to make "Never again" a reality.

Take Action:
Call your two senators and your representative (202-224-3121; www.senate.gov; www.house.gov) and urge them to take action to end the genocide in Darfur. The White House switchboard is 202-456-1111; or e-mail [e-mail].

Answer 6

I will be honest, as well read and up on most things that I am, Darfur is something that I really know almost nothing about.

Answer 7

and not using a call of the UN authorizing using stress, it would want to be a contravention of global regulation to invade Sudan for any reason, similar to it really is a contravention of global regulation for us to be in Iraq. The UN structure is considered a global treaty. per our structure, any treaties that our us of a signs and symptoms develop into US regulation and the U. S. is between the first signatories of the UN structure putting forward it unlawful to do this action without the consent of the UN. If the UN says the international might want to act to forcefully provide up this atrocity then we ought to continuously help it.

Answer 8

It's where we should be investing our foreign policy funds! In Iraq we're causing hate, in Darfur we could culture peace and respect.

I'm a moderate Democrat.

Answer 9

it's rough... from what I understand... was REALLY ROUGH about 2 years ago... getting a little better... AU I think has sent some troops in...

but a mess... and a horror... maybe even on the scale of Rwanda in the 90s... when all the dust settles...

too bad no one really seems to care...

Answer 10

I'm a conservative...and I say let Sudan handle it.

I also say let Iraq handle its own problems.