Liberals ready begging bowls for Obama

It's strange how intervention in Africa is acceptable to liberals whereas stopping a mass murderer like Saddam Hussein responsible for wars and millions of deaths or removing the Taleban in Afghanistan which executed women before soccer matches is not. And before you all come back at me with your various opinions regarding the merits of invading Iraq, I'm not discussing that. The point I'm making is that regardless of the reason Iraq happened, the facts on the ground are what they are now and we must see the matter to its proper conclusion as the outcome is far better than what was there before - and what is notable is how little we've heard from liberals about the millions of lives saved by removing Saddam and imposing a democratic state.

You'd think that Iraq's example of a democracy making do with its various tribal factions constantly at loggerheads would be an ideal outcome for Africa but since the Iraq 'solution' was never acceptable, it is hypocritical (a trait liberals do not lack) to demand that the same vilified West and the US in particular, be asked to intervene in sovereign states in Africa with an Iraq-type solution. We hear people like Jimmy Carter demanding intervention in Zimbabwe but is someone who strongly opposed to the war in Iraq. Which is it liberals?

The message needs to be consistent. Hardship exists everywhere. Either the world helps all who suffer or we cherry-pick causes depending on which leader is in power.

And another question, why is this responsibility to rid the world of problems, always placed at the feet of Anglophilic nations? These are world issues and should involve all countries including rich and powerful countries like Russia and China and some in the Middle East. Yet it is the sons and daughters of predominantly Anglophilic Caucasian countries that are asked to sacrifice money and lives to rescue other races while at the same time being vilified and blamed for the world's ills as the West always is.

Oxfam America has launched a petition drive which asks President-elect Obama to “announce his plan to end sexual violence in Congo.” Their demand is a worthy one. In effect, they are calling upon America to become “our sisters’ keepers” in the heart of darkness that modern Africa has become.

As America faces the most serious economic recession (or depression) since the last century, as civil and national wars rage everywhere, and as the world faces continued acts of Islamic terrorism–Oxfam is telling Obama that, despite our own increasingly limited resources, that the American mission rises–or falls–as a function of whether this great nation can continue to spread justice elsewhere. It is an almost impossible mission. But prithee pause and hear what’s going on in only four African countries.

Congo has been characterized as “A Hell on Earth for Women” in the Nouvel Observateur. Rightly so.

Remember the Hutus who perpetrated genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda? Well, more than 1.5 million of them fled to eastern Congo, to a place where the hills of Rwanda are still visible. There, they (and economic mercenaries, who are after gold, diamonds, ore, and hardwoods), have been committing rape as a “genocidal act.” Last year, a United Nations Report documented the “number of excess deaths due to Rwandan and Ugandan occupation as estimated at between 3-3.5 million.”

The rapes are unprecedented in “savagery, planning, and perversity.” The pattern is that of repeated, public gang-rapes of women, usually in front of their children and husbands. Fathers are forced to rape daughters, brothers, and sisters. Most unusual, men are also sodomized. The ages of such victims range from 4 to 80. In one hospital, women require at least six operations to repair the damage of their “sexual injuries.”

It gets worse. Many husbands reject their raped wives and take away their only means of livelihood: their kitchen and farming utensils. And, the majority of rapist-soldiers and rapist-mercenaries have HIV/AIDS and/or syphilis which they pass on to their innocent victims. “Armed Hutus are the worse rape offenders” in this “war within a war.”

Onwards to South Africa where a woman or girl is raped every seventeen seconds.

According to WorldNetDaily, there is an epidemic of child rapes in South Africa. Way back in 2002, children were the victims of 41% of all rapes or attempted rapes. Since then, an increasing number of infants and toddlers have reportedly been raped. And why? Because South African men believe that sex with a virgin can cure their HIV/AID.

In 2008, in South Africa, 21,538 rapes or attempted rapes were of children under 18. However, most rapes go unreported.

Why is the great Mandela not taking a stand?

Why are African-American groups not taking a stand?

According to WorldNetDaily, “This story has been largely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States and the Western world, in order to perpetuate the Mandela myth of the wonderful New South Africa,” said former Republic of South Africa military intelligence officer Koos Ven der Merwe.”

According to a 2008 Human Rights Watch Report, marital rape in southern Africa is epidemic and almost never reported.

Can we ever forget the news out of Somalia this past November, 2008? The Islamic government stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, a 13 year-old victim of gang-rape to death in a stadium filled with 1,000 spectators. Words fail me on this one. Only action will do.

Darfur, Sudan? Clearly, tragically, the world learned nothing from the genocide of Armenians (which the Turkish government continues to deny), or from the Holocaust of European Jewry. It continued on its diabolical way in Algeria, (Islamic paramilitary groups kidnapped, raped, sexually enslaved girls and women); Bosnia, (women were systematically raped, both by Christian and Muslim men); Rwanda (women were systematically and publicly gang-raped and mutilated); and in Darfur, Sudan–where genocide and what I call “gender cleansing” has been going on for years now.

Darfur proves that the United Nations is completely ineffective–except when it comes to demonizing and scapegoating Israel for the crimes being committed by others.

President-elect Obama: What are you going to do about the horrific violence that men in other countries are perpetrating upon women? How will you be able to convince our own multi-culturalists that we have the right to “interfere,” that we command the moral high ground to do so?

How will you be able to convince unemployed Americans that our budget belongs not only to ourselves but to foreign lands too? How will you be able to convince our own isolationists and pacifists that “boots on the ground” might be the only thing that will stop a genocide or mass “gender cleansing” in progress? Most of all: How will you be able to convince the many victims of rape in America that our resources don’t belong to them first?

Sir: I do not envy you this task.