Sudan's Hour of Truth: To Be or Not to Be?Dr. Hashim El-Tinay *

Sudan's Hour of Truth: To Be or Not to Be?




Dr. Hashim El-Tinay *
Washington, DC,
December 09, 2010


We have witnessed how many Americans and especially those on the right were and are disenchanted by the dysfunctional behavior of their elected representatives and can’t understand why partisanship trumps serving the common good, the reason why these representatives were elected in the first place. They expressed it in the November 2010 midterm elections and gave Obama and the Democratic Party a "shellacking" by taking over the House of Representatives and changing the balance of power in Washington. The deal on taxes, just made, is a direct result of this changing landscape.


We have also been witnessing how many people in the Sudan and in the diaspora have become disenchanted by the way many Sudanese politicians in both the North and the South have been wasting precious time in small politics while the clock is ticking for a referendum on January 2011 that will determine if the Sudan, as we know it, will or will not be. In a country that has been captive to its worst demons , civil war, poverty and lack of both real stability and good governance. and where the one party system imposes fear and dreads freedom of thought, expression and action, what can we expect on January 9, 2011?


If the lessons of history are any guide, it is clear that the nation-states ,which are man-made, are like all of us humans, limited in their mission to serve the people. They clearly demonstrated that they are not meant to take us to Heaven. Rather, they are meant, with some luck, to save us from Hell, here on Earth. Alas, many keep pushing people to Hell by hawkish policies based on a violence rooted in cruelty and the dehumanization of the different other. Many states have a dismal record of practicing man's inhumanity to man, while filling the airwaves with empty lofty rhetoric.

Full article:

http://hashim-peacequest.blogspot.com/2010/12/sudans-ho...be-or-not-to-be.html


In peace/salam,


Hashim
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Dr. Hashim El-Tinay
Founder/President

Salam Sudan Foundation (SSF)
International Peace Quest Institute (IPQI)

http://www.exiledhope.com/chapter_one

Salam Sudan
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