Breaking News: UN Authorizes Darfur Peacekeepers

From: David Rubenstein, Save Darfur Coalition <darfur@mail.democracyinaction.org>
Date: Aug 31, 2006
Subject: Breaking News: UN Authorizes Darfur Peacekeepers


I have critical news to report.

This morning, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution authorizing a peacekeeping force in Darfur. The presence of a peacekeeping force is the only measure that will provide the security the people of Darfur desperately need.

This morning's vote is unmistakable evidence of the effectiveness that the pressure you, and hundreds of thousands of Darfur activists like you, have applied to world leaders. The international community has shown that the will now exists to end the genocide in Darfur.

Yet, before peacekeepers can be deployed, the resolution says the Sudanese government must first agree to permit them.

This means that we cannot yet let up on the pressure. One way to continue to make your voice heard is to attend the "Save Darfur Now: Voices to End Genocide" rally and concert in New York City's Central Park on September 17. Click here for more information.
If you cannot make it to New York, there are other September 17 events taking place all over the country and the world as part of a Global Day for Darfur. For more information on US events, click here. And for more information on international events, click here.

As always, thank you for everything you do.

Sincerely,

David Rubenstein
Save Darfur Coalition
http://www.savedarfur.org/

never.

Hope they do better with this effort. I am not holding my breath, though.

If you watched Thomas Barnett's "the Pentagon's New Map" or "Blueprint" you will see the Imperialist agenda is focusing on Central Africa. Just a thought.

Barnett maps out a sweeping new vision for the U.S. military in Blueprint for Action, the sequel to his influential previous book The Pentagon's New Map. He says the U.S. military has a massive doctrinal flaw. It has an unrivalled power to win wars. But it has little ability to win the peace. Witness Iraq, where virtually no thought was given to postwar stabilization and reconstruction. He advocates creating a new Department of Global Security in the U.S. government, tasked with putting countries back on their feet after an armed intervention by U.S. forces. He says the new department would also work to reduce economic and social instability in "disconnected" regions of the developing world. "It all starts with America and yes, it all starts with security," he writes. Barnett's vision is highly U.S.-centric and recalls the "white man's burden" philosophy of British colonial authorities. He advocates "regime change" in North Korea and Venezuela. And his solutions for the problems of the Third World are straight out of a banker's mouth: privatization, deregulation, globalization. But Blueprint for Action is an important account of the current thinking and debates at the highest levels of the Pentagon. --Alex Roslin

called Peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Over 8000 people were murdered during that time according to a study in the Lancet. I do not believe that the US has a humanitarian agenda in Darfur.

No, I'm afraid this may be another false start. Here's hoping I'm wrong ...

...be as effective as they were in _________ (fill in the blanks)
"UN peacekeeper" is an oxymoron.