Peacekeepers in AIDS infected area

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Peacekeepers in an AIDS infected place

By

James Bredin

Conspiracies of silence and indifference out there,

Hammered in by reality genocide and despair,

As international goody-two-shoe socialists howl,

African Union troops in Darfur have thrown in the towel.

Left-wing newspapers show the pictures every day,

The dead, the dying, the starving kids on display,

Places that are all members of the United Nations,

Still they point the finger and make more accusations.

As Sudan spirals downwards all the way to hell,

And in Darfur the dead bodies can cause an awful smell,

Where the history of their peace agreements mean nil

Though they live on humanitarian aid or starve still.

Does all this stuff make sense at the United Nations?

Where they say they don’t want help but send large $donations,

Activists, petitions and marches and names wall to wall,

Want atrocities stopped when they march, scream and call.

But why send peacekeepers to an AIDS infected place,

Could this epidemic come home and slap us in the face?

But our goody-two-shoe politicians want to fix the world,

With their big UN peacekeeping flags unfurled.

I apologize if this has caused you to think,

That indeed this might be the next UN agenda stink,

No mention of the Saddam Oil for food scandal these days,

Or reference to the African Union peacekeeper phase.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

[geoffrey]

Bravo, sir, bravo.

Couldn't agree more. The world, especially the UN, have turned their backs on Sudan. We need to send our troops.

Is the reason we aren't AIDS? I don't think so. But I get the feeling that African lives just aren't worth much to our politicans, and thats truly a disgrace.

[Rue]

Well it really is quite simple. Canada underfunded its army since 1967 to the point of basically making it a joke. The 4th largest Navy at the end of WW 2 I believe to what now? And sure Canadians want to be the good guys and go off to Darfur but with what? It can barely handle its mission in Afghanistan which it just pledged another 2 years to. Why not Darfur? Look at the strategic position of Afghanistan

vis a vis where the oil pipelines have to run. Now look at Darfur which is nowhere near the oil lines in Nigeria or Libya. End of story. No oil, no interest and so another

genocide. With due respect though this is the UN that has miserably failed to send UN trops with a clear mandate to put down the Sudanese military and their allies and prevent them from entering refugee camps.