A CHANGE IN DARFUR POLICY?
Topic: Dept. of State, Once in a Lifetime01. December 2008 |
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Barack Obama announced today that Susan Rice will be ambassador to the United Nations — and that the post would be elevated to a cabinet level position. The New York Times’ Peter Baker reports that the choice may disappoint incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (because Rice was an early Obama supporter even after working for the Bill Clinton administration) and Obama’s liberal supporters (who hoped Rice might have earned an even loftier position).
But what’s more interesting about Rice is her focus on genocide. She was Asst. Secretary of State for African Affairs under Clinton when she visited Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. Rice vowed then that the U.S. had an obligation to intervene in future genocides. She has followed through, advocating forcefully for the U.S. and U.N. to do more to stop the Darfur genocide.
Perhaps thanks to Rice, the Obama administration will be forced to take the U.N. and the situation in Darfur more seriously than Bush ever did.-MB
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Ok… I understand the need to help. Help those that can’t help themselves. I’ve been in the Service for 9 years. I have been deployed, fought wars, and ended up wounded. I don’t see the reason that the U.S. needs to be the savior of the world. I thought that this was an agreement of all the sovereign nations of the world. If I must, I will point out that we have not been able to do half of the things expected of us. How can we take care of the world, when they hate us? How can we help people that don’t want our help? The minute we step foot in their country, we become the bad guys. I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore, but seems that no matter what we do, the locals that need our help hate us, and if we don’t help… the idiots in the media who push their own agendas, and promote their self righteous propaganda, shun, ridicule, and call for punishment. I vote to take care of ourselves first. Fix our economy, fix our education system, fix our health care system, and provide for our own people, what the world expects us to provide for them. You can’t focus on fixing other peoples problems until you can fix your own.
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