Today at NYU there was a reasonably sizable protest down at Washington Square. Specifically, they were protesting both America's lack of military intervention in Darfur.
On my way to class this morning they were chanting "Out of Iraq, Into Darfur." Excuse me? Talk about jumping from one shitty situation into another. For anyone who doesn't know (many Euro-liberals seem to fancy telling me that most of my fellow Americans are under the impression that the world consists solely of America and Iraq) in Darfur the Janjaweed, a militia with the support of the Sudanese government, are killing thousands of various Sudanese minority groups.
Now don't get me wrong, in an ideal world it would be great to overthrow the Sudanese government and the Janjaweed, but as Iraq SHOULD have taught us, we don't live in an ideal world. The US military is simply not equipped to successfully intervene in a foreign civil war. How hard is that to understand? Vietnam, Iraq, and now Darfur.... Idiots.
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