Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:30:06 PM
I’m perplexed by many of the people who call for us to immediately withdraw from Iraq but want us to intervene in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Based on the lessons we’ve learned over the last five years in Afghanistan and Iraq, here are reasons Why We Shouldn’t Get Involved in Darfur.
Darfur didn’t attack us on 9/11.
Darfur doesn’t have WMDs.
Darfur is part of a sovereign nation, and this is a civil war with sectarian violence - and therefore it’s none of our business.
We still don’t have OBL, dead or alive.
Someone there might attack our soldiers.
We can’t send our children there to die.
Too many "poor" and “minority” soldiers would have to go.
It may take more than a week.
It will turn into a quagmire.
They don’t deserve it and we shouldn’t impose our values or try to export democracy.
Our involvement would provide training/recruitment for terrorist organizations.
Some of the people there might hate us.
Some of the people in other parts of the world might hate us.
Bush just wants to get his hands on camels.
Our companies may profit if they are asked to help out there.
There are problems here in U.S. we need to remedy.
So, you see, we have no reason to get involved in Darfur and plenty of reason not to.