Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Confronting Genocide in the Future

In the wake of the Iraq conflict gone wrong, one of my biggest worries is that the very idea of the use of force will forever be tainted in the minds of some people. Nonetheless the world in which we live guarantees us that there will always be bad guys, some of whom will only respond to force. Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute has a proposal at TNR online. With an eye toward Darfur, O'Hanlon argues for the establishment of "a U.S. military division dedicated solely to the prevention of genocide."
he identifies the problem as follows:
Even if you sent a million soldiers to Darfur, that would not solve the problem," a Sudanese minister recently taunted Western governments. The West could probably prove him wrong with a mere 20,000 troops, but, unfortunately, that seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. It has now been four months since the United Nations authorized the deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur to stop the killing and destruction that has so far claimed 400,000 lives. During that time, the genocide has, by most accounts, accelerated. But the United Nations will not send peacekeepers to the region without Sudan's approval, and Sudan's genocidal leaders--eager to see the carnage continue--refuse to give their approval, so the U.N. force hasn't deployed. And it probably never will.

I would like to see such a policy enacted, but with the understanding that the US genocide peace force always try to work with allies on the ground -- say, the African Union in the case of troubles on that continent. Another key would be for such a force not to be fungible -- that is, the mandate would have to be clear that such troops could not be pulled into other conflicts. The creation of such a division might not be viable now, but perhaps in the future it will happen, when we are shaking our heads and saying "Never again" yet again.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fine, will your U.S. military division invade the United States to arrest Jim Bob Moffett and Riley Bechtel?

Will the 20,000 troops return the billions of dollars worth of gold stolen from the West Papuans?

We in Papua and Australia would equally appreciate if the United States STOP funding the genocide of West Papua.
Stop sending FBI Agents to kidnap Papuans for the Indonesian military to torture and imprison ; or maybe you could STOP FUNDING the TNI military and their Laskar Jihad and other al Qaeda Networks which your US corporations are business partners with.

If the United States would stop funding the racial cleansing and the IMF / World Bank funded racial replacement programs; the 40 year genocide might be able to stop.

If you want public attention and glory, then send your troops to the Darfur civil war; but if you want to say no to genocide then send your TV cameras to West Papua.

For a dose of reality about media access to States suffering real genocide, read Oswald Iten's report,
Prison, Torture and Murder in Jayapura -
Twelve Days in an Indonesian Jail


Or for general background to how Rockefeller and Bechtel tricked Kennedy into colonizing West Papua for the Indonesian military, see one of the West Papua Information Kits.

dcat said...

Hey, Andrew -- settle down. I've no idea why this proposal would raise your ire so much, nor do I have any idea why you would aim your ire at me.

Would my US military division invade the US? Er, no.

I do not know enough about the situation in West papua to comment on it, but it will say that it seems at minimum distasteful for you to diminish what is going on in Darfur to press your own cause.

I'm pretty certain that much of your post is simply a tirade, and were it more coherent, perhaps I could assess it.

Oh -- and I own fewer tv cameras than you might think.

dcat

Anonymous said...

Thanks for response :)
Sorry if I appeared to be going off at yourself or the use of reasonable force when needed; I was going off at assumption that only non-Americans commit genocide, and that military enforcement is always required.

The Indonesian genocide of West Papuan populations is supported by Bechtel and Freport McMoRan who prevented the US Congressmen from asking questions like Section 1115 they wrote in 2005. Today GW Bush is funding the Indonesian military for his friends at Bechtel and Exxon want the US to do.

The TNI Generals are STILL supporting jihad terrorist militia and the ethnic cleansing of Christian populations like West Papua's. This genocide and the Australian news reports of the May 2003 slaughter of another ten Papuan towns by Indonesian Jihad militia was kept out of the US media; because some Americans want West Papua's gold.

The reason the US public were never told about Indonesia hosting Al Qaeda as well as Laskar Jihad training camps a year after 9/11, is because certain people value the brutal TNI Generals over democracy and freedom.

West Papua is a COLONY, and the US is FUNDING the TNI Generals because of US gold fever...