Ah, for the heady days of the 1960′s and 70′s. When every “right thinking” liberal was waving Mao’s “Little Red Book” and extolling the advantages of living in a brutal dictatorship.
What happened? I guess growing up and amassing fortunes make the prospect of living in a dictatorship of the proletariat less inviting to them.
Now we have good liberals trying to pressure an Islamic country to accept “peace keepers” that share neither their faith nor their ethnicity, inside their borders. They already have Chinese troops guarding the oil fields.
What is happening in Sudan that is worse than what was going on in Saddam’s Iraq? I don’t remember Sudan invading their neighbors and I don’t think they have used poison gas on their own people. Nor do I think they have attempted to build any nuclear weapons.
So what if they are killing some of their citizens and it might be called “genocide.” I think that it was that sage of the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, that told us that the invasion of Iraq was not justified even if it were to prevent genocide. I see no reason to hold Sudan to a higher standard. The Burmese were able to slaughter a good number of their own citizens without the threat of outside interference
Good luck with the Chinese. They may be anxious to do some social climbing. But I don’t think they’re going to jeopardize a source of badly needed oil just to placate a bunch of American liberals.
But they might be able and willing to effect some cosmetic changes to mollify them. Maybe even provide some “non-African” peacekeepers themselves, since they’re already in the neighborhood.
That’s just what we need. More Chinese troops in Africa.
