Razorbak and all,<Turabi's promotion of radical Islam> In a country that is 70% Islamic and only 5% Christian I think it is obvious that in a democratic vote Islamic leaders would probably prevail. All said, however, I think it a good move on the part of Mr El Bashir to steer the government to the less radical side. It was Mr Turabi who stirred up this latest round of controversy by stating oil revenues will be spent on "tanks and missiles", not the best priority in my opinion.
It is good to see Mr Carter exercise some good global leadership here. Let's hope that the Clinton Administration doesn't retaliate by sending a cruise missile to bomb the Carter Center in Georgia. <g> My big disappointment with the current administration is that, just like Vietnam, they are doing everything to escalate the war in Sudan, while the largest casualties are the civilians from famine and starvation created by the war.
As far as my comment about the "poor journalism" coming out of Sudan, this is not to say that all news is of poor quality, however, I do feel there is much propaganda which dilutes the overall reporting effort and clouds the big picture. Personally, what is particularly disturbing are these reports of bombing runs on civilians and hospitals which are reported as quite routine, yet reporters fail to document any evidence of this on film. One report details how these humanitarian food drops must register a flight report with the Sudan government, in return, armed with this information the government follows by bombing these civilians as they run out for the food drop. If in fact this is actually happening, it would be a gross cowardly action in the name of genocide and by the same token a very immoral act of journalist incompetence for failure to document these atrocities on film given the routine and predictably of such events. Ed |
