The New Republic Online posts a crash course on the history and future of Darfur.
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Do you read Global Voices Online? They had a good item about Darfur today - Link to item
GVO is becoming one of my daily must-read sites. Their collection of views from around the world is a refreshing change from US news coverage.
[blogan: I edited the link to shorten its display.]
Mike, I haven’t read Global Voices Online before. It looks interesting. Thanks for the link.
I scanned rather than read parts of all three articles. The one thing that is unclear to me from my cursory read is that this conflict has elements of political, economic, religious, and ethnic components, fueled by good old-fashioned ‘I’m doing it because I can.’ It strikes me that the Jajaweed is pandering to Bushl’s ‘war on terror’ as a device to keep the U.S. at bay in the struggle. But, ironically, what the Jajaweed is doing IS terror, and we have grave humanitarian reasons to get involved on some level. It also strikes me that we could get involved in this mess for purely humanitarian reasons, leaving the ‘war on terror’ aside, which would certainly help us establish ourselves as the ‘good guys’ we claim to be.