President bush recently announced that the U.S. would impose new sanction on Sudan to pressure the government to stop the genocide. Honestly, it’s about time. The failures with the Iraq War, staff performance have made it difficult for any other important issues to surface in the news. Sure, on campus we have groups of students tell other students about innocent deaths in Israel and Darfur, but that is usually one or two people with a few pamphlets, and not very effective.
The sanction directs its efforts to companies, three individuals and the oil industry overall. All of the 31companies, except one, targeted are controlled by the government of Sudan. The other is thought to be involved in weapon sales to the government. President Bush tapped Secretary of State Rice for help to strengthen international pressure on President al- Bashir. The death toll to this date is in excess of 200,000 people.
Short of forceful military action, which is not a possibility because of the situation with the current foreign policy of the Administration, there is no solution. President al-Bashir has already indicated that he is not interested in peace talks. Sudan already asked the world to disregard the efforts of the US for being “unfair and untimely.” I’m not an extreme pacifist; force is necessary at times, especially for the US as a superpower. This is one of those times, but I doubt President Bush will use force as a means of dealing with the tragedy in Sudan. He doesn’t have enough political pull at the time.
The sanction directs its efforts to companies, three individuals and the oil industry overall. All of the 31companies, except one, targeted are controlled by the government of Sudan. The other is thought to be involved in weapon sales to the government. President Bush tapped Secretary of State Rice for help to strengthen international pressure on President al- Bashir. The death toll to this date is in excess of 200,000 people.
Short of forceful military action, which is not a possibility because of the situation with the current foreign policy of the Administration, there is no solution. President al-Bashir has already indicated that he is not interested in peace talks. Sudan already asked the world to disregard the efforts of the US for being “unfair and untimely.” I’m not an extreme pacifist; force is necessary at times, especially for the US as a superpower. This is one of those times, but I doubt President Bush will use force as a means of dealing with the tragedy in Sudan. He doesn’t have enough political pull at the time.
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