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June 13, 2005
Why the US Will not put troops on the ground in Darfur..
This essay by Jay Tea of Wizbang Blog is a clear-eyed statement of why the U.S. is not going to send soldiers to stop the evil brutality in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
Key points:
- We have no allies in the region who would help us. This makes the cost of deployment much higher and much harder.
- We would get no military help of significance from other countries and all efforts to internationalize the situation will fail because they will be blocked in the U.N.
- We have no free division to deploy at the moment. Our forces are busy right now in Iraq and the Balkens and Korea.
- Our mission will have to involve killing a significant number of non-uniformed Sudanese men. The same types of problems we face in Iraq will also exist in the Darfur.
- We have no national interest in the Sudan, the only reason will be humanitarian (i.e. purely idealistic).
This is not going to happen. As a Guest at Winds of Change writes "Yes, those are horrible things to say. Yes they are concessions to evil. But there's too much evil in the world, and not enough heroes. So evil is going to win some."
Posted by rakhier at June 13, 2005 09:53 AM