Agent_Smith
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I normally agree with his sentiments, but did he not learn from the debacle that is Iraq?
Re: the highligheted last sentence, was this not the plan in Iraq? Look what happened there...
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Itâs time for a new International Brigade
An international mercenary army could save the people of Darfur, says tim collins:
...A Native American acquaintance of mine, Steve Adkins, chief of the Chickahominy tribe from Virginia, said: "If [the people of Darfur] had oil and gas they'd be safe - [the West] would find a reason to help."
Well, let us take a flight of imagination and decide that we do care and we do want to help. What would it take to intervene against the Sudanese bully?
Sudan's military, as it stands, is vulnerable to an assault by a modern force. Based on the remnants of the Sudanese Defence Force left behind by the British and backed by the chaotic Janjaweed militias, with some Soviet bloc training and decaying equipment, it is a ragtag army.
To take it on, and then to hold the region, would require a force of less than divisional strength - that is to say some 10,000 men in three brigades with logistics back-up. The force would need to have armour and air power to deal with Sudan's army and air force before turning to peace enforcement to ensure that, once driven off, the army and militias did not return...
Re: the highligheted last sentence, was this not the plan in Iraq? Look what happened there...

[c]The first post