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No, We Shouldn't Bomb Darfur Either.

lenin | 02.07.2004 15:06 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | London

David Clark argues in today's Guardian that the "international community" ought to threaten the use of force against the Sudanese government if it fails to curtail the human rights abuses currently taking place in the south-west of the country...

David Clark argues in today's Guardian that the "international community" ought to threaten the use of force against the Sudanese government if it fails to curtail the human rights abuses currently taking place in the south-west of the country. He maintains that both Blair and the Left have been unwholesomely silent over the atrocities - in Blair's case on account of his bruising experience of leading the country into war with Iraq; in the Left's case because they are "morally disarmed" by the presumption that any intervention by the West must be automatically wrong. He argues that once upon a time, Blair knew what to do with outlaw regimes (like Milosevic's, for instance), but now he doesn't because of the wild goose chase in Iraq...

He's so, so wrong.

Continue:  http://leninology.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_leninology_archive.html#108877868670794746

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