We're gonna' shove our aid up your river delta!

I just read the most insane article regarding humanitarian aid I have ever seen. At first I thought that this must be from the Onion but it turns out this is not satire, this is from Time. Its from fucking Time! Christ on a fucking unicycle!



First paragraph; "How dare a foreign government exercise its sovereignty and refuse our great aid?"

Second paragraph; "If they won't accept our paltry hand-out we shall force it on them with violence!"




I sent them a little feedback. You have to believe me that I was trying my damndest not to sound like a crazy person but if you have read anything on this blog you already know how hard a time I have with that. Here is my editorial reply.





"The entire premise of this article seems like a thought that isn't even reasonable enough to rise to the surface of an intelligent person's mind. How did it become a Time article? The very idea that the U.S. should invade a country because they won't let us provide disaster relief to them is completely absurd. This is the kind of juvenile warmongering that one would expect from the far right of the blogosphere because it is too insane for Fox News. Just because a country is governed by evil men does not give us the right to violate their sovereignty."

That Other Forgotten Conflict

Since 2003, the international community has had a ready barometer with which to gauge its ability to tolerate the worst forms of brutality that man can inflict upon man. No weapon is off limits, as many women have been raped as a tactic of war. Bush said that what was going on was "genocide," that the U.S. and the world should do something to stop the violence. However, like almost everything else Bush has said or done while in the Oval Office, this, too, turned out to be purely for political reasons as words were not matched with follow-through. Darfur is still burning, using the hopes of inhabitants for peace as fuel for what has now turned from internal struggle has now blossomed like a twisted, black Lotus into full-scale regional conflict.

Tensions along the border have risen. The government of Chad, which bombed targets in Darfur over the weekend, stands ready to escalate the fighting even further, perhaps with ground forces. And, Sudanese troops attacked UN/AU peacekeepers, allegedly as a result of misidentification. The fighting stands to get even worse without urgent diplomatic, economic, and military assistance from the West.