The War in Darfur, Western Sudan, Africa, is now in its fifth year and its increasingly unlikely - despite their rhetorics - that major world powers will do anything to prevent the killings.
Some people are now calling for a free market/private sector solution to the conflict: if governments are unwilling to send soldiers to the area, how about the private sector hiring Blackwater mercenaries instead?
John of Locust & Honey wrote:
Several years into the Darfur genocide, it's getting increasingly unlikely that any of the major powers will do anything to prevent the extermination of these people. This problem has led some people to propose a free market solution: mercenaries.
Let us say, hypothetically, that a group of churches or denominations came together and hired a mercenary army to protect the people of Darfur from their Sudanese oppressors. Would their actions be consistent with Christian principles?
Photo caption: A Darfur survivor at the site of a mass grave on the outskirts of the West Darfur town of Mukjar. Photo by: Nasser Nasser and Alfred de Montesquiou - via AP
Please, do not cheapen the plight of these people by assuming that a useless government body, such as the UN, will actually take initiative beyond legal threats. The murderous bands of state-funded terrorists will not stop as long as the free money, guns, and pillaging rights continue to flow from the Sudanese government.
>1,000,000
Oh Wait! Sudanese government doesn't like America
so its okay to kill people as long as its your government
*shudder*