What’s the difference between Iraq and Darfur?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
five kids down asked:
I’ve heard (for a few years now) that we should be going to Darfur to intervene and stop the genocide. Should I mention that its not the so-called warhawk neocons that keep mentioning this to me, it seems like its mostly the anit-Iraq war liberals that want this. What I want to know is why we should go there, when we’re already in a war that ended genocide, and the same people that cry about how bad Iraq is are the same people that want to intervene with Darfur?
I’ve heard (for a few years now) that we should be going to Darfur to intervene and stop the genocide. Should I mention that its not the so-called warhawk neocons that keep mentioning this to me, it seems like its mostly the anit-Iraq war liberals that want this. What I want to know is why we should go there, when we’re already in a war that ended genocide, and the same people that cry about how bad Iraq is are the same people that want to intervene with Darfur?
Also, the two biggest reasons I’ve heard about why we should send troops to Darfur is
1) Stop the genocide (Like Saddam pulled against the Kurds?)
2) China’s getting their oil (that sounds familiar)
So what’s the difference between an unpopular actual war and this popular proposal of war? To me this seems like hypocrisy, but there HAS to be a good explanation somewhere… please tell me!
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