Rice Blasts The World On Darfur - Political Forum

CHUQ · 06-26-2007, 04:10 AM

You have got to be kidding! The US is saying the worlkd has not done enough, but yet it has ignored Darfur for damn near 10 yrs.

PARIS, June 24 — France and the United States appeared the best of friends here on Sunday, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and France’s new foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, joined forces to confront the continuing crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Ms. Rice praised the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, for playing host to an international conference on the crisis starting Monday and echoed Mr. Kouchner in deploring the international community’s lack of action to stop four years of wanton killing in Darfur.

“I do not think that the international community has really lived up to its responsibilities here,” Ms. Rice told reporters at a news conference with Mr. Kouchner.

Rice and French Counterpart Highlight Darfur - New York Times

vladward8 · 06-26-2007, 07:27 AM

Google "Quanats". A series of such water pipelines around North Africa fed by natural and solar powered desalinization would go an awfull long way towards bringing peace back to the region.

top gun · 06-26-2007, 07:39 PM

The wonderful thing about Condi Rice is she's so very predictable. I'll try to break it down...

Step #1: Get off plane wave at spectators.

Step #2: Have meeting with leader of country and tell them President Bush feels their pain, truly wants to help them and is appauled that the International community isn't doing more.

Step #3: Get back on plane wave at spectators.

Step #4: See to it absolutely nothing ever gets done.

CHUQ · 06-27-2007, 04:02 AM

The perfect Bush foreign policy.

Futurewise2007 · 07-06-2007, 12:54 AM

I am actually very schocked that Ms Rice is accusing the world of not helpng in Darfur, meanwhile, her country is doing nothing! Oh boy, somuch for diplomacy. It is going to isolate America again...

PrinceAfrica · 07-16-2007, 03:32 PM

Why are you guys shocked that the American leadership doesn't feel the pain or want to do anything positive about Sudan & the Darfur problem?

I believe the only reason they even make an issue of it, is so tomorrow when things get out of hand they can say "We tried to do something didn't we?" when in fact they didn't do anything and are afraid the world will castigate them as it was castigated after the Rwandan genocide.

Bradgriff · 07-16-2007, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by CHUQ

“I do not think that the international community has really lived up to its responsibilities here,” Ms. Rice told reporters at a news conference with Mr. Kouchner.

Wow! isn't that great, a fresh new conflict. Because that's just what America needs, to get involved in another generations old ethnic/religious flare up.

Listen war hawks...It is NOT our "responsibility" to police this messed up world. We can't afford it. What's the excuse this time? Darfur is now...let me guess...terrorrists!!!....run and hide!!..., that'll work again...Fox News will surely now find some Al Queda connection...justify the whole thing. Why would the repubs even bother though.?.., because the dems will win the next election...Oh! let's create a second mess for the upcoming dem administration to inherit. That way the repups can criticise the way the dems ran the pullout, and that'll be the new reason we failed there. Then in Darfur, they have the whole time to criticise the lousy way the dems are handling it. All a bunch of long term strategy to regain the white house in 2012, because they know they've already lost the election because of the war. Maliki said we could leave anytime last week. But I bet a few ambassadors paid him a black mail visit and threatened him with financial aid cutoffs unless he took back his "The US can leave anytime they want" statement. Fox News was eager to report him taking it back. I got no proof but it would be soooo us. It would be a republican disaster NOT to leave the Iraq mess for the dems, because THEN, it would be a complete repub failure. Too bad Condi Rice has sold her soul to people who care more about election politics than the lives of our soldiers.

Battersby · 07-21-2007, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Futurewise2007

I am actually very schocked that Ms Rice is accusing the world of not helpng in Darfur, meanwhile, her country is doing nothing! Oh boy, somuch for diplomacy. It is going to isolate America again...

Although when the US DOES do something for the good of the world - such as removing evil Saddam from power - certain people complain and take to the streets in protest.

Yet when the US sits back and does nothing, people complain that the US isn't doing anything.

It's a no win situation.

Trojan_Horse · 07-22-2007, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Battersby

Although when the US DOES do something for the good of the world - such as removing evil Saddam from power - certain people complain and take to the streets in protest.

Yet when the US sits back and does nothing, people complain that the US isn't doing anything.

It's a no win situation.

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Actually, it's like this....If you have something that the US wishes to loot (valuable mineral resources) from any country, then be sure that they will send in their United Nations Gestapos to you with trumped-up charges like : Human Rights voilations, WMD (not being an authorized dealer) and the list goes on, thereafter that country will be on the list of Economic Sanctions, and from there it develops into a Media Spin, until you succumb, but if do not have any valuable resources for the US to loot, then you no not exist on their World Map, that's Geopolitics.

Futurewise2007 · 07-29-2007, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Battersby

Although when the US DOES do something for the good of the world - such as removing evil Saddam from power - certain people complain and take to the streets in protest.

Yet when the US sits back and does nothing, people complain that the US isn't doing anything.

It's a no win situation.

Battersby..... there you are wrong. US has only done some bad things. By going against the international law, UN ordered US to stop it's war talking again Iraq, by attacking Iraq (not attacking, rather invasion), on lack of proof. Where is the proof of the real reason why America invaded Iraq? US only made the conflict in the Middle East worse, i am sorry, but there are no peaceful solution in the Middle East due to oil there, and the US hunger for it.

Now, Darfur on the other hand is a real humanitary crisis and US is looking the other way, because like Trojan Horse said, if there is natural resources like oil (which there are) or political strategy area, then US will be involved, but if not. Then US will sit back.