Life imitates "... Art Thou?"
George Clooney got arrested on Friday. George Clooney spoke before the Senate on Thursday. George Clooney will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow. Why does all this sound so natural? The subject is the Sudan. North Sudan and South Sudan and over 500,000 dead citizens last year. 2 million dead in the last three years. The same three guys in charge also made the Darfur massacre’s possible. The world seems to be getting smaller all the time!
The People’s Republic of China owns all of the oil resources of the Sudan. They would love to buy the full production of that country but there are complications. North Sudan has the oil, South Sudan has the refineries. North Sudan is Muslim/Arab, South Sudan is Christian/African. They both live in a state of constant Civil War. Roving militant gangs rape, pillage and plunder with atrocities that only a few could conceive possible. They can’t settle any differences long enough to take advantage of supplying China with the oil they need, relieve the world crunch on supply and make it possible to lower world gas prices. Perhaps Big Oil, the Saudi’s and the Grand Cartel……are making sure that the evil business in Sudan continues, in order to keep pumping up the demand and accelerating the rising prices of oil and gas throughout the world.
It would be easy to simply say: Bomb these folks into the Stone Age. But they already are in the Stone Age! It would be easy to say that we should send NATO troops into this snake pit and take control of the infrastructure. The problem is: There is no infrastructure! It would be easy to say that we should create “safe zones” around the refineries in the South and the Pipelines in the North, just as they did in Mad Max. Creating “Safe Zones” might not be a great problem, but keeping those “Safe Zones” operational might be, not to mention the required trunks, rail and air that would be necessary to get that oil to market and the food, water and other goods….back into the “Dead Zone”.
After hearing George Clooney’s arguments about why we should be engaged in the Sudan, the logic and arguments sound compelling. The prime issues however are finding the reasonable and clear solutions to the current and future chaos of that region. Our great minds and computer modeling programmers should be able to come up with the right answers. Constant Chaos, Revolution and Nightmare Realities make it difficult to contemplate those answers.
George Clooney does make sense………….but what are the answers?
Aw, Greg beat me to illustrating the story.
I was going to put on a pic of Paul Krugman. You know, to balance off the Krugman story last week that was illustrated with Clooney.
That too would make sense.
This story makes it sound like we should go liberate Sudan to allow the Chinese to have more access to African Oil. Is that correct?
DE – It’s not a bad idea to coordinate with China on the Sudan. They own all the oil
leases there. Since the Global Oil Market is sensitive to erruptions and a someone finite resource….as the issues in Iran develop for instance….it would not hurt to open up that Sudanesse market. The problem is of course is the utter chaos there now…that would be very difficult to irradicate. With that market in Sudan supplying China…..the price of oil on the world stage….might just be reduced. It’s a thought.
*A major correction that slipped through the cracks in this article: The raw barrels of Oil come from South Sudan, not the North. The refineries are in the North, not the South. Our apologies to Mr. Clooney and the work he is doing. The South has stopped sending Oil to the North to refine, because the North is sending bombs rather than revenue from the Oil Production to the South. All other thoughts remain cogent.
I do accept as true with all the ideas you have presented in your post. They are really convincing and will definitely work. Nonetheless, the posts are very quick for starters. May just you please lengthen them a little from next time? Thanks for the post.
(This spam made it thru – without links – because of how charming the user name is. – ED)