EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS!!!
With the naming today of Obama advisor Susan Rice to be the next UN Ambassador, you can look for the situation in Darfur to get more attention, and military action. The anti-war, ‘let’s just stay home’, democrats may not like this pick either. Rice is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former assistant secretary of state in charge of African affairs.
Rice wants Congress to authorize the use of force to end genocide in Darfur, including strikes against Sudanese military locations. To make that clear, she wants US military troops to be ready to attack forces taking part in genocide. She also is asking Obama to use the US Air Force to enforce a no fly zone over Darfur. Will this be “Obama’s war?”
Rice also wants NATO’s rapid response team and rapid deployment of UN Military Batallions in Darfur on the ground right now. Rice is pushing President Obama to do the following five things ver batim from her:
“1) Impose tougher sanctions on Khartoum:
- freeze dollar-denominated oil transactions;
- pursue comparable sanctions in the UN Security Council or, failing that, with the European Union;
- keep sanctions in place until Sudan allows the full and unfettered deployment and operation of the UN-AU force.
2) Support efforts to unify the rebel groups and negotiate a durable ceasefire and political agreement to end the conflict.
3) Speed deployment of the UN-AU force by training, equipping, airlifting, and otherwise supporting the rapid deployment of UN battalions:
- contribute specialized capabilities and equipment—such as helicopters, night vision capability, command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) capabilities—to support the UN mission in Darfur;
- obtain NATO agreement to deploy its NATO Response Force (NRF) to provide short-term augmentation and a bridging component to beef up the AU force until the full UN-AU hybrid can deploy.
4) Implement and robustly enforce, with NATO, a no-fly zone. The United States should also signal its readiness to strike Sudanese military and intelligence assets, including aircraft and airfields, if necessary.
5) Finally, Congress should authorize the use of force in order to end the genocide.”
Will this be the USA’s next war? Will the new President Obama listen to his UN Ambassador’s requests? So much for not spending millions and millions on military actions overseas when there is so much to do at home. This could be another broken promise from Obama leading to disappointment from the left.
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With the naming today of Obama advisor Susan Rice to be the next UN Ambassador, you can look for the situation in Darfur to get more attention, and military action. The anti-war, ‘let’s just stay home’, democrats may not like this pick either. Rice is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former assistant secretary of state in charge of African affairs.
Rice wants Congress to authorize the use of force to end genocide in Darfur, including strikes against Sudanese military locations. To make that clear, she wants US military troops to be ready to attack forces taking part in genocide. She also is asking Obama to use the US Air Force to enforce a no fly zone over Darfur. Will this be “Obama’s war?”
Rice also wants NATO’s rapid response team and rapid deployment of UN Military Batallions in Darfur on the ground right now. Rice is pushing President Obama to do the following five things ver batim from her:
“1) Impose tougher sanctions on Khartoum:
