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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman  FUNDING A DICTATOR'S PALACE IS NOT A JOKE - IN DAFUR NO LESS. Read on:
Last week China's leader, Hu Jintao, provided Sudan with an interest-free loan to build a presidential palace. With that gesture, Hu demonstrated his contempt for the Western understanding of the world -- and for Western policy toward his own country.
Sudan, you will recall, is the scene of the Darfur genocide. Since the killing began three years ago, the United States and its allies have flown in food and medicines, provided logistical help and money for a token African peacekeeping force, and done their best to isolate the Sudanese regime, which orchestrates the massacres. They have done this not because they have a selfish interest in Darfur but because tossing babies into bonfires is a crime against humanity. Sebastian Mallaby - A Palace For Sudan - washingtonpost.com | If anything, you just supported reasoning as to why the people of Darfur need more help.
I would say it also shows the ignorance of our government to allow this to take place there and the asininity of us becoming so indebted to China. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville |