08 July 2007

Peacekeeping

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

Blaise Pascal

The United States is maneuvering to introduce a UN peacekeeping force into Darfur, as a first step to securing control of the region's vast supply of oil. Will Sudan — the first country south of the Sahara to gain independence — be the first country to be re-colonized.?

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