Last week it was George Clooney, with some timely cheerleading from ABC's Kate Snow, making the case for intervention in Darfur. Today, those bellicose boys of the Boston Globe jump on the Great Liberal War-in-Darfur bandwagon.In its editorial of this morning, the Globe lambastes "the great powers" for failing to take "effective action" to stop the killing and for "refusing to rescue the men, women, and children who are marked for death in the coming year."
Why it demands US intervention in this war between rival Muslim factions, but condemns US intervention in a conflict between rival Muslim factions in Iraq, the Globe never explains.
More proof for the adage: liberals will support American intevention - so long as US national security interests are not at stake.
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Merry Christmas to all!
December 23, 2006 - 09:31 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsNow that it is clear the MSM creates foreign policy for the US, we will see a poll showing we need to redeploy our troops to Darfur. Something along the lines of:
Should US troops be sent to:
A. Kill all your family members,
or
B. Darfur, where our troops will clearly have the upper hand until we, the exalted MSM, decide they are really just murderers and thugs and must be redeployed to where they are more needed.
DSG
P.S. Merry Christmas!!
Iraq
December 23, 2006 - 09:33 ET by iveseenitallWhat? There are no men, women, or children to "rescue" in Iraq? Sounds to me like those people at the Boston Globe are "racists".
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
A Darfur Christmas
December 24, 2006 - 12:29 ET by BBallleaperNotes from Needham, MA. As is my custom I am required to spend the Christmas holiday with my Irish in-laws who are are Catholic (more on that later), liberal, and registered Democrats. It's always a fun time of the year for me.<p>
I happened to mention to my liberal fanatic sister-in-law that Needham had been featured on the national news for passing a law stating that children who had achieved scholastic honors could no longer have their names printed in the newspaper.<p>
While decrying that her own daughter, my niece had been slighted by this insane ruling, she nonetheless was in complete solidarity with the ditsy principal who issued the ultimatum. "After all," she said, " we've had four teen suicides in this area and we can't afford another."<p>
I attempted to ascertain how she had developed this non-sequiter but she would have none of it. I explained to her that this ruling is the end result of liberalism which infests our schools and society. The goal is to make us all equal so that no one's feelings are ever hurt. Individual achievement is bad because someone is always going to be better than someone else.<p>
I suggested to her that they should cancel the prom because most assuredly some girls won't be asked and it is certain that several of them will commit suicide as a result. And disband the band! Why should one student play first chair when that type of agressive behavior will surely cause other clarinetists to strangle themselves in anguish!<p>
Then it was time for my annual attempt to demonstrate to these, the least of my bretheren, that while they consider themselves liberals and vote Democrat they are actually conservatives and don't know it.<p>
I begin by asking these devout Catholics if they are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. Naturally, as very devout Catholics, they follow the church on this issue and are anti-abortion. I explain that the Democrat party is pro-abortion on demand and for partial-birth abortion. Conservatives are against it.<p>
Then it's on to paying higher taxes or tax cuts! They love tax cuts and love to keep as much of their money as possible. How about a secure border? Yes, they reply, we have to stop illegals from over-running our country and stealing jobs away. How about the military? They hate the war but say they support the troops. Send them to Darfur they say! Huh??<p>
It's my contention that most people actually lead conservative lives and express liberal indoctrination viewpoints. But they will never stop pulling the Democrat lever in the voting booth!
Then it was time for my annual walk uptown to Needham. I was shocked to find that every other house here in this liberal bastion of political correctness has a green and white sign on the front lawn reading, "NOT ON OUR WATCH - SAVE DARFUR!!<P>
That prompted me to stop several people on the sidewalk, and in my best Christmas spirit, ask if they could tell me where Darfur was? The closest I got was the Middle East and where the tsunami struck. Civil war in Iraq! Get out they say! Civil war in Darfur (wherever they believe it to be!). Get in and save it.<p>
Liberals won't be happy until they destroy our country, its traditions, and its culture. Their ultimate goal is communism where the arrogrant, effete, elite, northeast liberals will run the politburo with their private dachas on Nantucket, and the rest of us will all drive a Yugo, worship big government as our Lord and Saviour, and go to forced indoctrination camps for mind-control training.<p>
Forget about saving DARFUR! Save our country and ourselves from these maniacs!
So, where's Darfur?
December 23, 2006 - 09:38 ET by acaiguanaSo, where's Darfur?
Is there a war there? Do they have oil? Are they a Democracy trying to start up some freedome stuff? Do they have a government? What are the names of the people who are marked for death?
Do they have relatives in the US?
ACA
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Acaiguana says: "Ya can't win if ya don't play."
Your sarcasim does come close
December 23, 2006 - 12:05 ET by dscottYour sarcasim does come close to raising the real issues of Darfur and the complicity of the MSM in lying by omission to the public. The genocide in Darfur is funded by oil money. Sudan sells oil to China and France, who in turn sell them munitions to carry on their dirty little religious war. Russia sells the munitions for the hard currency. All three of these countries are shamefully earning hard currency or oil to fund a ill conceived jobs program for their people making munitions. What we see being played out in the Sudan, an Islamic government, slaughtering it's own people because they are not Muslims. Sudan is not doing anything different than OBL, al Qaeda and what Iran is advocating.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius
dafur
December 23, 2006 - 10:18 ET by zoro7957I'm sure Wal Mart has something to do with it.
BUT DARFUR DIDN'T ATTACK
December 23, 2006 - 10:37 ET by mlongBUT DARFUR DIDN'T ATTACK US ON 9/11!!!!!!
Really this is South Africa all over again..the left in America and the MSM got all worked up over apartheid and demanded that it be stopped...even though there were(and still is)worst nations in Africa and other places in the World which they either chose to ignore or make excuses for...for many reasons
1-Since blacks in South Africa were the ones being mistreated by whites it was played to great effect by the left as a way to appeal to African Americans and bash the USA.
2-Since the other countries in Africa that where mistreating their people were led by blacks the left refused to condemed them because the first P.C. rule in dealing with human rights abuses in Africa is "you don't say anything bad about black African leaders".
3-You also never condem any human rights abuses in Communist countries like Cuba or any nations at war with Israel or the US (like Sadam's Iraq).
Bottom line is this the Left and the MSM are only worried about human rights abuse when...
1-The abused are the "right" color.
2-The abuser is not Black or Communist.
3-The US or Israel can be blamed in some way.
In Darfur 2 of the 3 standards are met..so their going to keep pushing it..untill we send troops then they'll start to protest it.
"liberals will support A
December 23, 2006 - 11:04 ET by Ten7s"liberals will support American intevention - so long as US national security interests are not at stake"
Its nutty. Everyone agrees, including the unhinged Liberals, that having our military directly involved in a civil war is a very bad idea. So they want to "redeploy" from Iraq, which isn't in a civil war, to Darfur, which certainly is. The Liberals don't know what should, needs, or can be done. And what's more, they spend all of their energy attacking anyone who has the slightest clue or is trying to accomplish anything worthy of effort. They bring down reasonable, competent people like Donald Rumsfeld and raise up fools like Nancy Pelosi.
So much for the "chicken
December 23, 2006 - 11:38 ET by SMGalbraithSo much for the "chickenhawk" argument.
Apparently, if the left supports the intervention, military background or experience isn't needed.
Funny how it works out that way, no?
Darfur
December 23, 2006 - 12:12 ET by seejayToo bad the real world isn't like Hollywood movies.
I'd just love to see Major George S. Clooney, looking dashing in his dessert cammos, and his rag-tag group of misfits take on the bad guys in Somalia. There'd be descisive battles and good men would die but surely Major George S. Clooney would prevail.
Of course, being a Hollywood movie, Major George would soon discover that his men were fighting the wrong enemy!
The REAL enemy, as it ALWAYS turns out, is not the islamic savages and psychopaths that actually claim a desire to exterminate all of the rest of us. No, the REAL enemy always turns out to be a group of evil White Men! Associated with neo-nazis too!
But at the end of the movie Major George really kicks the lead bad guy's ass! And as he's letting the evil-doer up to be escorted to justice, said evil-doer reveals a concealed weapon and prepares, while snarling and spitting, to kill Major George! But Major George actually knew he was going to try something like this and had his Jimmy Carter .45 auto at the ready. Major George blows the top of the bad guy's head off, grabs the frightened girl, accepts the thanks of our Democrat President by sat-phone, and limps off into the sunset. ( SCENE )
To be released March, 2007.&q
December 23, 2006 - 12:19 ET by MikeBTo be released March, 2007.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Where is the UN ??? I underst
December 23, 2006 - 17:01 ET by VT Con ManWhere is the UN ??? I understood that the UN was the great savior in these very circumstances. Where are they? Are they closed until they replace Kofi?
Why isn't the left crying for the UN to resolve this? So many questions...
Their troops are too busy r
December 23, 2006 - 19:43 ET by mlongTheir troops are too busy raping and killing other people in Africa but I'm sure when their done they'll move on to Darfur and start raping and killing there.