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December 09, 2008

Try the stick

An excellent reason to support the Obama administration. Assuming, that is, he means what he said. I will not hold my breath.

If the election of Barack Obama has been greeted with glee across much of Africa, there is at least one spot where the mood is decidedly different. In the Sudanese capital of Khartoum these days, political elites are bracing for what they expect will be a major shift in U.S. policy toward a government the United States has blamed for orchestrating a violent campaign against civilians in the western Darfur region.

"Compared to the Republicans, the Democrats, I think they are hawks," said Ghazi Suleiman, a human rights lawyer and member of the Southern People's Liberation Movement, which has a fragile power-sharing agreement with the ruling party. "I know Obama's appointees. And I know their policy towards Sudan. Everybody here knows it. The policy is very aggressive and very harsh. I think we really will miss the judgments of George W. Bush."

Let us speculate for a moment on the possibility of President Obama actually, for example, doing something about the jihadis and national socialists running the Sudan. Expect silence from the left on the subject of oil - though I expect the hard core could rustle up some Stop the Bombing buttons from the good old days when they supported Serbian fascism - and objections from the right regarding interventions with no relationship to America's "national interest". Despite seven years of polemic, I expect we would hear some decidedly 9/10 rhetoric from many supposed security hawks.

Obvious room for improvement: If Obama refuses to literally hold hands with the Saudi "king" it will be a step in the right direction.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 9, 2008 07:27 AM

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I'm quite hopeful Barack Hussain will be crowned king of Kenya and invade Sudan and Somalia.

Posted by: meleager99 [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 11, 2008 07:26 PM

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