[John D Harris]

Originally posted by Stratos: There's only a limited amount of ruckus little Sweden can cause about Sudan, especially when there's thirty or so other hotspots around the World that needs a good fixin'. Further, there are no other forums Sweden can use except the UN and possibly the EU. Despite what we think about the UN, it's the only one of it's kind and the only organization that can be even remotely close to actually accomplishing something. The only alternative is military actions by individual nations or groups of nations, and only superpowers or other large nations can do that. The conflict in Sudan, like most other conflicts in Africa, is very complex and requires a very well-planned plan and probably alot of time to get any good results.

Whats so complex about people killing each other? You go in and kick everybody's rear-ends, anyone with a weapon is considered an enemy and is shot on sight. All the time wasted on talking about how much time it's going to take is more time that people are being killed!! Why don't any of these other country's gov'ts plan for this kind of possibility and increase their military budgets so they can do something? After all the history of the Human race is full of these kinds of things. Why can't Sweden send troops it's not like Sweden has an enemy boardering it wanting to invade? 3 or 4 other countries together could have troops there in a couple of days, since everybody knows the USA RUSHED to war in Iraq. A much bigger opperation so something this small shouldn't take much time to do.