Should the United States send troops into Darfur?

[hempotalogist]

We need to pressure China to help stop the bloodshed. Nobody in this thread is talking about PetroChina and the other Chinese oil companies in the Sudan, that are funding the Janjiweed, etc and keeping this bloodshed alive.

[TallCoolOne]

We BARELY have enough troops as it is. We need to do as others have suggested and put pressure on China and other countries to act, since the conflict affects them directly.

[socialistpete]

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:

Psycho I voted no for a different reason I think we should clean up our mess at home like health care and social security just to name a few of our problems. Its not our job to police the world! I think whats happening there is terrible but you take care of your own first.

[ezygzy]

We BARELY have enough troops as it is. We need to do as others have suggested and put pressure on China and other countries to act, since the conflict affects them directly.

Exactly, maybe thats what some of the less than friendly outside nations are actually plotting on.. Stretch the united states' resources and invade us right when we're at our weakest.

Stranger things have happened, and every mighty civilization in the past has fallen with more than alittle help from the outside at an opportune moment in time. They would take advantage of our situation, with troops deployed all across the world and not enough to defend the homeland and launch a lightning fast assault on the homeland, and quite possibly leave the United states soldiers no America to come home to..

I say no, stay out of Dafur and lets just start focusing on our own health and well being for just a few years without more drama on the world-wide stage. Take a back seat for once.

[ohkelly]

Hell, how hard would it be to knock over Sudan, kick the chinamen out, take the oil and liberate the PDB tribal Sudanese from the heathen Arabs who are doing all the murdering there? Seems like a win-win. How many of you liberal do-gooders know that it's Arabs who did the slaughter in Rwanda? Well, it's Arabs doing the slaughter in Darfur, too.

[jakez]

Yeah, let's stick our nose in more people's business.

Here's a common sense note, the United States is genocide! We have been destroying ourselves for some time now..