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The Time Has Come to Shut Down Sudan
By Charlie
Alright, if you bash America, we can deal with it.
If you sheltered Osama Bin Laden in Khartoum throughout the 1990’s, we can forgive you.
Even if you slaughter your own people because their skin is a little darker than yours, and they worship a different god than you, we’ll call it genocide, but not do anything about it.
BUT when you start extending your violence outside of your borders, in addition to all of the above, it is time for you to be dealt with, and dealt with harshly. In a VERY under-reported story:
Chad says rebel attack defeated
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad President Idriss Deby's forces fought off an early morning rebel attack on N'Djamena on Thursday, repelling their most daring attempt yet to capture the capital and oust Deby.
Residents of the capital, located on Chad's western border with Cameroon, sheltered in their homes as rebels who had slipped in under cover of night battled with government troops in a northeastern neighborhood.The thump of artillery and rattle of small arms fire echoed across the city for several hours before easing later. Some residents reported seeing armed rebels in pick-up trucks.
Deby, who accused neighbor Sudan of supporting and arming the attackers, said his forces had repulsed the rebels.
That isn’t even the good part- guess who (probably covertly) played a major role in defeating the Sudanese-backed insurgents in their attempt to conquer Chad? Guess who just “got some” in combat? The one European power that can do whatever it wants in Africa and never get called on it. Still don’t know?
The French!
France, Chad's former colonial ruler, reinforced a military contingent it has in the country and was ready to evacuate some 1,500 French nationals if necessary, French officials said….French officials said the rebels who broke into the capital on Thursday appeared to be isolated units and that the main advancing insurgent column was halted by government forces late on Wednesday at Linia, 30 km (18 miles) outside N'Djamena.
A French warplane -- part of a 1,200-strong French military contingent stationed in Chad -- fired a warning shot over this rebel column on Wednesday, a French Defense Ministry spokesman said in Paris. He added French aircraft had also flown reconnaissance flights over the rebel positions on Thursday.
The raid on N'Djamena was the most daring strike yet by the rebel United Front for Democratic Change (FUC), which said it also attacked the eastern town of Adre near the Sudan border.
"Our forces have entered Adre," FUC leader Abdoulaye Abdel Karim told Reuters by satellite phone. He said he was in Chad.
But General Nassour said the government was in control of Adre, which he said was attacked by "Sudanese forces."
So we’ve got the French engaged in putting down a revolt in a former colony that is being fomented by a radical Islamist genocidal government next door. I’m so glad we live in a world that has “laws”. Plus, because this is the 21st century, the modern media has allowed us to see the “other side” of the conflict:
PARIS (AFP) - A Chadian rebel leader has alleged that French fighter planes have bombed several rebel-held towns in eastern Chad, causing an unknown number of civilian casualties.Heh. I hope the French continue to fire off as many “political signals” as possible at the Sudanese-backed interlopers. Here’s modern warfare for you, folks. March a foreign-backed rebel column of troops into a neighboring country, toward the capitol for the purpose of invasion and conquest, and when you get attacked, you blame the defenders of acts of aggression and are somehow the victim!France -- which has 1,200 troops present in the country -- immediately denied the charge, the defence ministry said that "warning shots" had been fired towards rebels columns advancing on the capital on Wednesday.
"We have just learned that since this morning, in eastern Chad, French army aircraft have been carrying out a military intervention," the representative in France for the United Front for Change (FUC), former Chadian foreign minister Laona Gong, told AFP Thursday.
"We deplore the numerous civilian victims of the French bombings in the towns of Adre and Moudeina", he said, without giving a precise number of casualties.
Gong charged that France "is not remaining neutral" and accused it of lending "blind" support to the regime of President Idriss Deby Itno.
France's defence ministry said a French Mirage jet had fired warning shots near a rebel column advancing on the capital N'Djamena from the east on Wednesday morning, as a "political signal".
Black is white, up is down…
The Sudan needs a UNSC Resolution condemning its actions, an international boycott, a carpet bombing, or some combination of the three.
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You're forgetting the 10,000 plus Chinese forces guarding the government of Sudan. Which allows the Sudanese forces to go on out and slaughter, rape and enslave at will.
Thus to go after Sudan is to take on the Chinese.
One hell of a situation, to be sure.
Involvement in Sudan other than air strikes is prety hairy due to the geography.
As for air strikes :
Effects : Did the previous round of air strikes deter the Sudanese government? Would it deter them from continuing (a la Libya 1986), or spur them to worse (as it did Milosevic in Kosovo 1999)? How will the Chinese feel about assaults on their client state?
Targeting : Is there anything much to target that the government really values, other than say, oil production facilities (own oil prices, general economic damage)? Dispersed military units (comparatively low payoff)? Civilian infrastructure (collateral)?
Endstate : If the government is fatally weakened/collapses, would that reduce this kind of creeping insecurity on the margins of Sudan, or spread it? Is this Sudan worse than the the Zaire failed state it could become?
Questions, questions.
How about : Let the French handle it. Support and encourage them (a carte blanche UN resolution for instance, and NATO startegic support), but the sharp end is theirs to enjoy.
Fellow Peacekeeper: I tend to agree with you for the most part, but when you say to let the French handle it, I wonder what that would really mean.
The Sudan needs to be the next Al-Andalus, as a warning shot across the bow of the Islamofascist Umma. Invade, occupy, ship Muslims to Yemen or Somalia, ban Islam, guarantee Chinese property rights but privately threaten to publicly offer their troops citizenship in a future oil-rich democracy if they'll defect and convert, and ask the Pope to send an interim Governor-General. And state publicly that ethnic cleansing of barbarians is not genocide if you make a reasonable attempt to send displaced primitives to somewhere they'll find the culture to their liking. And when the ACLU gets upset at America promoting a religion, point out that even their intellectual father, Karl Marx, would be on our side (feudal cultures have to advance via a bourgeois stage to capitalism before socialism can be thought of) and that the U.S. Constitution applies to the United States. Oh, and yes, let the French help, or do it all really quickly before the French realize they're helping.
Kross. Let's not play games at the edges of islam. If you're interested in sending signals, Tehran is as good a destination as any.
Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh. There it all is. All the money, all the terror.
Those are your enemies. And that's where people either need to start dying in droves, or where people need to start getting the message. The message being, "We're not taking any more crap from any of you!"
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we should not become involved