I have a strong feeling that they are injecting money into a process which actually feeds more slaving and kidnapping – ergo they are funding further rounds of slaving actitivies.
Who’s going to do that? Will that actually provide security or, as I noted, simply create yet more Warlordism? Evidence suggests without an overarching leadership, you’re just contributing to further chaos.
(1) on the CSI idjits: they give human rights organizations a bad name – their work is clearly partisan. Their involvement is one the last things this issue needs imho
(2) whatever they do, I don’t believe private parties who are ostensibly humanitarian such as this should be in the business of funding armed groups. May I suggest that this is the route
(3) as far as arming and so forth goes, there are already armed southern resistance groups (both Xtian and non-Xtian): what they lack is funds and worse, cohesion. Lots of youngs guys with AKs with poor discipline does not do much to improve things. A serious, well-funded program of support might, if it brought organization. If.
I think if you’re interested you should (1) pressure the US to step up support for the main opposition armies (2) donate to recogized humanitarian orgs such as Doctors without Frontier and Red Cross who do not fund slaving activities.
To be sure, victory was not a guarantee. But it did help us to know that we had a few friends on our side when we sent the Declaration over. Thanks for the link, but I’ve got my own personal copy for reference. I’ve even made a new version of it that I correct from time to time.
You might note that we purchased the Louisiana territory and The Florida region from England’s enemies. You don’t suppose those enemies had a vested interest in keeping England out of it, do you?
Chances of winning, as well, have much to do with justification for a fight when life under some sort of rule is better than death. Concentration Camp, fight and be killed because life, IMO, was worse than death. I don’t know the slavery issue at all, but I’ve got a few problems with modern america and fighting would be worse than peaceful demonstration.
They surely have a reason to want to fight, and I don’t doubt that people are fighting down there. What I doubt is that support for any side of the issue will do anything. Best case: we go in there and put everyone down, and say:get back to normal, folks. The second we pull out its the same old grind. Short of genocide or an actual organizational government capable of keeping the peace, nothing will solve the problems. Sounds vaguely IRA to me, even if there are multiple factions involved.
We live in a country where opposing viewpoints are largely tolerated if not tolerable in themselves. Much of the poorer nations have not yet achieved a state of complacency enough to allow tolerance of any issues, or of very few. I seem to get the impression that it isn’t ouright slavery that is being practiced, as well. I’m gonna go read these links tonight…
I hate to agree with you, but given what the level of support is likely to be, yes. Individuals or small groups arming small groups is likely to breed more unorganized violence rather than meaningful change. It strikes me that secession of the South is probably the sole solution: that is a large scale solution requiring serious diplomatic power. Of course the South has water. Lots of water. No one is going to give up easily.
From what I have been led to understand, actual slavery is practiced (ownership of folks), but there is also other things: forced labor, plain old kidnapping for money.