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Iraq: The Next Darfur?
With the largest U.S. presence in Iraq of the entire war, Baghdad is still being ethnically cleansed, and at least 1000 Iraqis (a very conservative estimate) are dying every month. Petraeus and Crocker didn't get any questions about Iraq in this context. Instead, senators have asked about a prospective humanitarian catastrophe in the wake of a U.S. withdrawal.
There's no doubt that's a legitimate question, since any withdrawal scenario has to contemplate disaster, not just for U.S. forces but for Iraqis. Here Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) asks Crocker if post-occupation Iraq will be worse than the genocide in Darfur. Crocker doesn't quite endorse the statement, but says "the prospects for a truly catastrophic humanitarian disaster could be considerable." And indeed, it could be, and the country needs to debate that. Yet part of that debate should be the fact that sectarian cleansing is happening in Iraq right now, despite the best efforts of the largest U.S. force in Iraq since the invasion.
Comments (3)
1oldlady wrote on September 11, 2007 6:45 PM:Hum? The UN states that there is a genocide in Darfur, but the United States will not agree with that statement - Until now!!!
I guess Senator Cornyn (R-TX) has just confirmed that the United States acknowledges that there IS GENOCIDE happening in Darfur!?
Now, to his compare and contrast of Iraq to Darfur... If we leave genocide will occur or if we stay WE just speed up this process? Which is it?
mullah cimoc wrote on September 11, 2007 7:51 PM:mullah cimoc say 9-11 just new reichstag fire for aemriki become so stupid and brain slave of him neocon spy.
when watching the wtc7 video only retarded thinking not the inside job.
for the punish ameriki woman now the slut dress like the prostituion woman with having the LBT (low back tattoo). now not the job and cannot to buy new refrigerator. what ameirki him do now. the suicide.
KathyF wrote on September 12, 2007 1:47 AM:I feel someone needs to point out...
Genocide is happening right now in Darfur, yet the American military isn't there. Is our mission to prevent genocide, or is it not?
Because if it is, we'd better get some troops in Darfur ASAP.
Or is part of the definition of genocide the words "taking place in an oil-producing country"?