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Siding with tyrants

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One of the points in the Euston Manifesto, which seems at first read as to obvious to be mentioned, is:

No apology for tyranny.
We decline to make excuses for, to indulgently "understand", reactionary regimes and movements for which democracy is a hated enemy — regimes that oppress their own peoples and movements that aspire to do so. We draw a firm line between ourselves and those left-liberal voices today quick to offer an apologetic explanation for such political forces.

Only when reading essays like this one, from the deep modern socialism, one start to understand why a sane left manifesto has to mention that left should not side with tyranny.

The essay itself is a combination of intellectual dishonesty such as to claim that the conflict in Darfur isn’t racial. Following the same line of logic - the killing of the Jews and Gypsies during WWII wasn’t racial because they were European as the Germans who murdered them.

If the first argument can pass as problematic logic, which is unfortunate but pretty typical for socialist, the rest of the essay reveal the true colors of the writers. The writer, being so busy protecting the current regime in Sudan and being busy looking to blame the US for anything claims that the campaign to save Darfur is:

Alas, the U.S. has no access to these riches, because the Clinton administration branded Sudan a “terrorist state” and imposed a blockade, as well as bombing its only major pharmaceutical plant in 1998. The China National Petroleum Corporation holds the only oil leases in Darfur. The U.S. wants that oil. And it wants a foothold in this region so well situated to exert military and political power over the Middle East.
That’s why the U.S. favors sending U.N. troops into Darfur — and why China and France, with already established oil claims, do not.

But this is not the end of the conspiracy - it those damn Zionist involved:

Last Sept. 17, a Global Day for Darfur, thousands demonstrated in New York. Their main call was not for aid , but for 20,000 U.N. troops. Most of them were concerned young students and anti-war activists, chanting “Out of Iraq, into Darfur.” They are unaware that the Save Darfur campaign is organized and financed primarily by the right wing — evangelical and Zionist groups and NGOs funded by the National Endowment for Democracy. Rally leaders met with George W. Bush in the White House just before the event.

And the arguments continue into the punch line - The suggested solution:

Only through an exchange of material resources and technological skills between richer and poorer countries will regions like Darfur recover from their torment. But, under the system of production for profit, equitable exchange is excluded.
Here and now, support for Darfur must include demanding the end of sanctions against Sudan along with immediate humanitarian relief and development aid for projects like irrigation. Aid that comes from governments must be unconditional. And, if there is any possibility of forming committees of women, farmers, herders and workers to make decisions about aid distribution, this should be fought for.

What this essay actually claim is very simple: The west should remove the sanction from Sudan and only provide humanitarian aid. This solution will magically will stop the Genocide in Darfur. Wondering why such dreamed solution should work, since it isn’t solving the origin of the conflict in Darfur, or questioning the reason the west should aid a country that, as the writer mention itself, is a major oil producer - can only answered by mental professionals…

 

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Written by Rogel

December 3rd, 2006 at 10:20 pm


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