Darfurther Nonsense LIII
The U.N. refugee agency canceled an aid mission for Darfur refugees because of fighting near Chad’s border with the Sudanese region, the agency said Friday.
The mission would have taken relief supplies to some of the 13,000 Darfuris who have fled to Chad since Sudanese troops and allied militias renewed their bombing of villages earlier this month, said Ron Redmond, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
He said 3,000 more people from Darfur arrived in Chad over the past week.
A team from the U.N. agency reached the Chadian border area of Birak earlier this week, but another mission had to be scrapped Friday because of “interethnic clashes,” Redmond said.
Not so easy, is it? I’d rather hide out in my fabulous Upper East Side apartment myself.
Relief workers have to risk their necks just to feed these people. One is tempted to just let the whole lot starve, as has happened throughout unrecorded history. One would rather not, of course, but one values one’s own ass more highly than a wheelbarrow of African booty. Sorry.
You might think that a unreconstructed neocon like oneself would happily man the business end of an AH 64 Apache chopper to turn the Janjaweed into firewood—and I would—but for what purpose? No Janjaweed ever called me kafir. If their only crime is that they preyed upon a helpless foe, then they would hardly be the first or the last. Given the profile (among the Left) of our fighting men and women as torturing, raping, baby killers, why should we visit that horror upon the wretched of Darfur?
Jonn Lilyea said,
February 29, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Well, ya know if ChimpyBushMcHitlerBurton turned loose our warriors to feed those poor people, Ms. Pelosi would blink us silly in a press conference while complaining that he didn’t get her permission (that she wouldn’t give anyway) and that there is no security interest that justifies our “intervention” in the intramural politics of Sudan.
But, yeah, I’d be your wingman.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
February 29, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
Wingman, Jonn? If you’re on the mission, I’m getting coffee. YouTube is the closest I’ve been to combat since playing war in the second grade.
Jonn Lilyea said,
February 29, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
Combat is just like second grade, only less adult supervision.