“It is a useless place and we could not govern it… The Sudan could be made to pay it’s expenses, but it would need a dictator, and I would not take the post if offered to me” (pg176). Charles George Gordon, a British commander in 1884, said the quote above. I believe that it is astonishing how some views of this place has not changed in the eyes of many in over a hundred years. As we look at what was written over a hundred years ago and today is that the fact that now Sudan has oil and is being ruled by the few who are in charge by owning these oil refineries. But even now, we all have herd the man or woman say “Bomb the hell out of them, that will solve the whole problem”. Quotes like this one shows us how little some understand about how fragile a government can be. Even if there was drastic bombing the land will still be there, as well as some people left who would need to find a way to get back into reality, starting with an actual government, throwing a place even further behind in history/ making the problems worse.
ASM.
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