Riek Machar Back In Juba

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

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He was fired.  He unleashed consequences.  He got his job back.  What's South Sudan's game plan? 



http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53787#.Vx-wBnErIes

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

He discusses the trip, a few days ago.

[MOON Ki]

A quick review:   

The South Sudanese fight Bashir for ages and finally, with the help of international pressure, get their own country.   One thinks that they are tired of fighting and will focus on building their own country.   Instead Kiir fires Machar, with results as predictable as that the sun will rise tomorrow.    Tens of thousands are killed; hundreds of thousands are injured; millions are displaced or affected in other ways.   Kiir rehires Machar.   

There are surely better ways to settle employment disputes or to run a country, with plenty of useful lessons available from many other African countries.

[RV Pundit]

The stupid Salva Kiir messed up south sudan by trying to circumvent the constitution. This is what we predicated would happen. Kiir need to hold free and fair election so he can win legitimacy in South Sudan.

[Reticent Solipsist]

Almost a dozen or years ago...give or take, a politician friend invited me to one of those cocktail functions where some heavy-hitter from State was pontificating on the future of South Sudan -- then still part of the Sudan. In the ensuing Q & A, I recall telling the group that I thought the South ought to be independent of Khartoum but should then become a mandate of the international community for a period of perhaps ten years or so.

I'll wager that in, say, eighteen months or so we'll be back right where we were last week. Kiir is not a leader who evokes a sense of nationhood and Machar is too arrogant.