I’m sure she can’t see the forests for the trees either, while in British Columbia or anywhere else there’s trees, since there’s more trees to get in her way today than when she was born.
In my daily visit to the Media Research Center‘s Cyberalert page, I found this Hollywood liberal making a complete, um, liberal out of herself.
Mia Farrow Slips in Anti-Bush Line During Interview About Darfur
On the Wednesday, June 28 Hardball, actress Mia Farrow slipped in the old “Bush went to war for oil,” canard during a discussion about Darfur. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asked Farrow what she wanted the American people and government to do about the crisis in Darfur to which Farrow demanded: “Support the relief agencies, and urge our leadership. There is, of course, a lack of political will. There is no oil in Darfur, only human beings.”
Well that’s odd, I thought. Because Sudan has lots of oil. Canada and the U.S. have in fact banned our oil companies from investing in Sudan pending the need for peace and the end of the genocide there first. Other countries, notably communist China, take a different approach, which is apparently perfectly fine with geopolitical expert Mia Farrow.
Here’s an article I found in the decidedly not conservative-luvin’ Washington Post from back in 2004, headlined “China Invests Heavily In Sudan’s Oil Industry”:
Sudan is China’s largest overseas oil project. China is Sudan’s largest supplier of arms, according to a former Sudan government minister. Chinese-made tanks, fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have intensified Sudan’s two-decade-old north-south civil war. A cease-fire is in effect and a peace agreement is expected to be signed by year-end. But the fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region rages on, as government-backed Arab militias push African tribes off their land.
China in October signed a $70 billion oil deal with Iran, and the evolving ties between those two countries could complicate U.S. efforts to isolate Iran diplomatically or pressure it to give up its ambitions for nuclear weapons. China is also pursuing oil in Angola.
In the case of Sudan, Africa’s largest country, China is in a lucrative partnership that delivers billions of dollars in investment, oil revenue and weapons—as well as diplomatic protection—to a government accused by the United States of genocide in Darfur and cited by human rights groups for systematically massacring civilians and chasing them off ancestral lands to clear oil-producing areas. The country once gave safe haven to Osama bin Laden and is listed by Washington as a state supporter of terrorism. U.S. companies are prohibited from investing there.
Part of a broader push by China to expand trade and influence across the African continent, its relationship with Sudan also demonstrates the intensity of China’s quest for energy security and its willingness to do business wherever it must to lock up oil.
Well maybe Mizzzz Farrow doesn’t read. Or maybe she’s drinking the Kool-Aid. Perhaps she’s suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome. She was making those remarks on the rabid anti-Bush liberal Chris Mathews’ “Hardball” show on CNBC after all. (“Hardball”—with guests like far-leftist Mia Farrow. Oh dear.)
More from the Washington Post:
[…] “Oil from Sudan makes up one-tenth of all of China’s imported oil,” said Zhu Weilie, director of Middle East and North African Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, who has links with the Foreign Affairs Ministry. “If we lose this source, how can we find another market to replace it? China has to balance its interests.”
Sudan is not a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, but it was granted observer status in August 2001, a sign it is being recognized as a significant oil producer. Its proven reserves are currently 563 million barrels, double what they were three years ago.
[…] As the oil began to flow, Sudan relied on Chinese assistance to set up three weapons factories near Khartoum, Ryle said. Human rights groups say oil receipts have helped pay for a government-led scorched-earth campaign to remove mostly ethnic Nuer and Dinka tribes from around the oil installations. The goal is to deprive the rebels of a base of support in their bid to attack the industry and undermine the government’s oil revenue.
Oh well. Back to acting, unfortunately for all of us!
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