Yeah. Restricting weapons deals to a regime that has shown a willingness to use violence to put down peaceful democratic activity... That keeps money in the country. It doesn't restrict its ability to trade whatsoever and, unlike some other sanctions, I wholly support it.
Too bad we're all caught up in election frenzy. I know America has about as much right as France to say what should happen in Africa (after the Cold War, we were as culpable in the imposition of tyranny and the spread of warfare as the old colonialists, if you ask me), but it'd just be nice to actually put some attention on what's going on there. Heck, at least we made some noise about Sudan before totally forgetting about it.
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Date: Sunday, 13 July 2008 14:44 (UTC)Too bad we're all caught up in election frenzy. I know America has about as much right as France to say what should happen in Africa (after the Cold War, we were as culpable in the imposition of tyranny and the spread of warfare as the old colonialists, if you ask me), but it'd just be nice to actually put some attention on what's going on there. Heck, at least we made some noise about Sudan before totally forgetting about it.
Ah well.