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Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
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#12Ah yes, blame the lack of rulers and not colonialism or war.
Sudan has been a sovereign nation for 70 years. How many years must pass before you can no longer blame colonialism for their choices?
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#14Ah yes, blame the lack of rulers and not colonialism or war.
If anything I’d blame the lack of colonialism as being the root cause of their problems.
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#15At which point we admit that current approaches to helping these countries does nothing and we reach out for other, radical, approaches and ideas?
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#16This is going to be the point where everyone blame the non interventionist movements for murder for the next thirty years.
Unlikely. That didn't happen in response to the failure to intervene to prevent the Darfur genocide before it started rather than just patrolling afterward to keep violence "to a minimum", the "Effacer le tableau", the massacre of the Hutus, the Rwandan genocide, the Gukurahundi, or the Cambodian genocide.
I think this is closer to the Onion story about American mass shootings: people shake their heads with sorrow while asserting nothing can be done.
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How did so many people come to live in a desert? Was it not always a desert? What sustained these people to get to 46 million?
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#18At which point we admit that current approaches to helping these countries does nothing and we reach out for other, radical, approaches and ideas?
what are you suggesting
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> I suspect all the aid and help over the decades has really just prolonged things
Can you be more specific about the counterfactual? I’m assuming you’re not imagining that the country’s population would have just fallen to 0 absent aid, but I can’t figure out how you’re so sure things would have been better run
Re: Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
#20Ah yes, blame the lack of rulers and not colonialism or war.
They have been independent since 1956. Other (majority non-European) British colonies/protectorates as diverse as Singapore (ind. 1965), Belize (ind. 1981), India (ind. 1947) and UAE (ind. 1971) managed to build peaceful societies. We need to recognize that the people of countries like Sudan are not children who don't know any better, contrary to European leftists' views. They are fully functioning adults who made a…
I don't think India is a great example here. The Partition of India in 1947 resulted in over 1 million deaths.