US Congress 'Deeply Concerned' About Sudan... Still Approving Arms Sales
Families are being ripped apart, children killed, and villages razed in Sudan's El-Fasher, according to The New Arab. The situation is described as 'apocalyptic,' yet the usual flurry of concerned statements from Washington rarely translates into stopping the flow of military hardware, sometimes to the very actors exacerbating these crises. One might wonder if 'deep concern' has become
Washington's pre-game warm-up for doing absolutely nothing. While the international community offers 'condemnations' and 'calls for peace,' the US State Department quietly approves transfers of military technology and intelligence, often to regimes with abysmal human rights records. The question isn't whether US officials are 'aware' of the suffering; it's how many civilian lives are factored into
the profit margins of defense contractors. How many 'apocalypses' does it take for a policy pivot where arms sales don't trump human lives?