Should the United States send troops into Darfur?

Well, Canada would help you, but unfortunately our government hasn't acted on genocide since the 1994 Rwandan Genocide..where the Canadian commander, Lt.Gen. Romeo Dallaire tried desperatly to aid the problem, but was denied the funding and troops he needed to keep things under control. People SHOULD try to stop this, as it's a terrible thing...but, unfortunately most of the people in power have the opinion that "africans can't be helped, we should just leave them and never go there". Terrible and inhumane, but its true the powers that be think that way.
This is why I study this stuff. I would like the help. But one person cannot do anything without power and forces to back him up, as was proved by the failed UN mission in Rwanda.
The UN is pretty useless, if you ask me. They do some good things, sure...but often they don't give enough effort to really solve the problem. And also, they did nothing when the US went into Iraq....Bush kinda said fuck you I'm going, and the UN went...well...we tried to stop it but oh well, we can't. Obviously they aren't a control over international relations like they were supposed to be when created.

Interestingly they did make a report of cannabis use, and Canada is #4 on the list. :thumbsup:

I just don't think peacekeeping works in some senses. But I would say that a genocide is almost worse than a war. Wars are violent and brutal...but in Rwanda, it took four months for 800,000 people to be cut to pieces with machetes. So let's examine that...4 months...approx. 120 days...if you divide the number of people killed by the amount of days, thats 6666.66(weird..:wtf:) people in A DAY!!!! Are 6 thousand people a day being butchered in Iraq?? Hellz no!
Which is more serious?

I find it AMAZING that the yes vote is in the lead here. Then what? We send troops on in to protect other countries interests? This "conflict" has been going on now for 40 years with tribal wars and now there is even an Al-Queda influence there! So we march on in and after we have a few hundred or thousand dead and people loose the taste of "helping" we hit the road?

Before we grow this set of balls to walk into Somalia/Darfur lets clean up the job in Iraq first. MAYBE if we show some resolve there the people of Somalia may just look at us with a bit of trust that we'd stay the course and actually put and end to the madness.

Have a good one!:s4:

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Originally Posted by S.W.I.M. 504

u shouldnt think like that

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i think we should think like that...why should our sons,brothers.etc... die to protect the world...i say we should keep our noses out of everyones crap..if we ain't gonna nuke and kick serious ass we just need to stay out of it...most of the people we FORCE our help on don't want us there so fuck'm

NO, get our troops home and put them on the border

I said no because although I think Darfur is the worst humanitarian crisis at the moment and we should help it in every way, I think that the US should focus on getting their troops out of Iraq and finding another way of helping the people instead of just using more violence. And I doubt that the Sudanese peopel would welcome American help seeing how they really fucked up Iraq.

There is always a peaceful solution, it's just harder to find

I know that america isnt the worlds police force and darfur is not our problem. anyway i dont think sending troops would really help the situation. there has got to be a better way to resolve this huge clusterfuck

FUCK NO!!! like everyone said we arnt america world police if they wanna have a fucked up place let um, we have a somewhat peaceful country for a reason its what the people want. I remember washington saying we should not be policing other countrys that we should stay out of it and try to concentrate on our shit. if we aint goin on no world domination quest then fuck it why would it matter anyways just gettin our people killed for nothin. But i would support like if hitler came back cuz that dude was a serious threat.

I don't think we should go to Darfur. We haven't got the will as a nation to stay in Iraq. We only do well in very quick wars, once we are somewhere for a long period of time the media makes america out to be the bad guy and it doesn't take long for americans to start agreeing with the media.

DDT

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Hitler staged a genocide and killed 6 million.
In Darfur, it's the same thing. Left alone long enough, I'm sure it will compare with the holocaust.

I think we need to get out of Iraq,but we shouldn't help neone unless we actually get some good help,fuck em all if were the only ones ever helping.