tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post115918214911323325..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Latte-drinking liberalsbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-1159199947675113792006-09-25T16:59:00.000+01:002006-09-25T16:59:00.000+01:00I'm a big fan of O'Neill by the way - when he argu...I'm a big fan of O'Neill by the way - when he argues that: <BR/><BR/>'that there is no civil war so bad that it cannot be made worse - prolonged, intensified, made more bloody and intractable - by the intervention of Western liberals'<BR/><BR/>I would say he was absolutely right to argue that. Modern 'humanaitarian' interventions have done much more harm than good for those on the recieving end.<BR/><BR/>There are many people arguing for intervention in Darfur, but the very same people have nothing to say about the likely consequences of such a one-eyed military interference in Darfur. It's likely that the Sudanese government would fall and leave a deadly vacuum behind it - such a situation would make matters far worse for the people of Sudan.<BR/><BR/>As O'Neill quite rightly alluded to, many who support the 'Save Darfur' campaign would also like Omar Hassan al-Bashir, president of Sudan charged with 'crimes against humanity', yet this demand is already making things worse, because Hassan al-Bashir quite naturally feels if Western forces did enter his country, they would come after him and arrest him.<BR/><BR/>This appears to be the reason why the Sudanese government won't countenance Western military meddling in their internal affairs, and explains why the Sudanese government is becoming ever more intractable to the idea of Western intervention.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes<BR/><BR/>CourtneyCourtney Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00123189158273701629noreply@blogger.com