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Re: Genocide and Chaos in the Congo

Michilines — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:42:03 -0000

It's always funny (hahafunny) to read commenters trying to guide the blog host on what is important. The canned response to DLS is: get your own blog and post all of those WSJ links, k?

WRT Africa in general and the Congo specifically, I follow the ongoing troubles there, but don't blog about them as much as I should. My international students are much more interested in what happens in Africa than my fellow Americans. Thank you for this post. I did need a second reminder to return to the subject in my writings.

Without the links to support my assertions, I think that the A.U. is stretched pretty thin with the addition of Somalia to its burden of both Sudan/Chad and the Congo. South Africa had had some success in that region in recent years, but their government has had its own problems, which, how can I say, distract from its role of continental peace maker.

I remember when I was advocating for action by the U.S. in Sudan and speculating that the lack of it was because the Bush administration's hopes that the Sudanese would come up with some info, that right wingers accused me of advocating military action there -- but I wasn't. But for the last two days Hugh Hewitt has been advocating that the U.S. military blow up the oil tanker that the Somali pirates took over. Hugh says, "Just blow it up!" And he can, because 1)it's not his tanker and 2)it's not his kin on that boat.

DLS, keep your head down, the world is coming . . .

Re: Genocide and Chaos in the Congo

JSpencer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:51:29 -0000

DLS, stop channeling your inner fool for a moment. The subject here is the Congo, not the future of US auto manufacturing. The 5 million dead have nothing to do with left or right, and certainly not with your own pretensions to being an "adult".

Re: Genocide and Chaos in the Congo

DLS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:53:02 -0000

Well, plenty of us are adults and know that we aren't the killers in the Congo and obviously aren't to blame -- we're not mentally ill or developmentally retarded. That's why we already know we don't "have" to pay more attention to Africa than we have routinely been doing since World War II, and why we don't do what Bono or other playpen-lefty celebs "tell us to do." That's for Romper Room.

Something far more important (and which merits much more time on this site, which strays so often not only into left-immoderation, but on specious topics) currently is this set of appeals mainly to lefties,

http://s.wsj.net/public/res...

http://online.wsj.com/publi...

and an additional set of remarks that include alternative suggestions at its end,

http://s.wsj.net/public/res...

and welcome commentary here.

http://www.thetruthaboutcar...