Send the US Army into Darfur?

Submitted by Scramble For Africa on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 2:00pm
Dutch writer Linda Polman, author of a scathing new book on the humanitarian aid "industry," evidently is much more naive about statecraft than she is about NGOs. Her comments belie both any understanding of the current state of the Darfur conflict and of U.S. foreign policy, and such a move would be disastrous in ways that the mind can only begin to fathom. The Guardian reports:

Like many good journalists', her indignation is large enough to contain a variety of contradictions. She believes that George Bush should answer in court for US actions in Iraq, yet she also wants the US army to go into Darfur. "Don't go after the oil," she says, "go after human-rights violations. Europeans believe too much in dialogue. We do not use violence against Burma, for example, but it could help."