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Barry Rubin: Why Engaging with Sudan Shows How Far Obama is Gone
Israel Insider ^ | October 27, 2009 | Barry Rubin

Posted on 10/27/2009 1:32:35 AM PDT by bogusname

The Obama Administration apparently thinks that its policy of engaging repressive radical anti-American dictators has been working so well as to extend it now to Sudan. This is the meaning of the new policy to be on this issue October 19.

That country’s government, once accused of genocide in the south, is now said to have been doing the same thing in the west. Mass murder and ferocious repression—300,000 people have been killed; 2.7 million made refugees--has been so prevalent that the country’s president Omar al-Bashir is under an international indictment for war crimes and Sudan is on the State Department list as a country sponsoring terrorism.

Far from being inconvenienced by this fact, however, Sudan has been playing a leading role in the effort to do the same to Israel: that is, wipe it out while simultaneously accusing it of war crimes. Sudan is the current leader of the “non-aligned” group at the UN, the largest bloc of members, and one of the main countries pushing to indict Israel for war crimes...

(Excerpt) Read more at israelinsider.ning.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dictators; obama; sudan

1 posted on 10/27/2009 1:32:35 AM PDT by bogusname
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To: bogusname
We need another Gordon...

2 posted on 10/27/2009 3:05:14 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE STAND CLOSER! ****** IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

Whose picture is that?


3 posted on 10/27/2009 3:21:47 AM PDT by Tom_Busch (The big media IS the enemy)
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To: Tom_Busch
Major-General Charles George Gordon.
4 posted on 10/27/2009 5:34:17 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: bogusname

I guess Obama doesn’t really think slavery is all that bad...

Mark


5 posted on 10/27/2009 5:41:14 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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