None of Our Business

"In the 1930s, a tougher breed of Americans didn't just demonstrate. They formed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, went to Spain and fought in the Spanish Civil War...Today's liberals are made of softer stuff. They don't want to fight or get shot at. They are too wealthy and live too comfortable a life. They want some poor American kid making $1,200 a month to go to the African desert and get killed."

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I agree with Clooney. However, the last I heard the Administration in the Sudan didn't want the U.N. or anyone else in Darfur. The feeling is that if they are left alone, they will be able to complete the genocide they are perpetrating in less than a year.

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No genocide should be happening. People shouldn't be slaughtered like cattle (which is sick in itself) or mice or bugs. But apparently they are. And even in our own country. People are being slaughtered. Well okay, not quite as dramatically, but yet as persistently. So where o where does this compassion of ours come to rest. To help our own first? To help others first? To help corporation interests first? I have to think that it is corporate interests we will help first. And it seems to me big corporations now have a toehold in Darfur and surrounding areas, so I would have to think they are launching the drive to peace down there...Or maybe they launched the insurrection and it got out of hand. Who can say. So as usual, why clean up our own act before we help others and it is because the corporations don't really have a stake in helping their own countries. Sure they give grants, they run around applauding how much money they throw at schools, but generally it is to create more consumers. And they do have a stake in the global arena, so they can always hire people from other countries. So I think Darfur is just one more symptom in a vast array of problems we in our selfish interests invest in. And really, if these countries would just get a backbone and get off their butts and do something, but maybe they figured out they have to help themselves first. It never fails, some fool gets into power and total makes a mockery of governing and gets rich while others die in that country and then there is a revolution. Ho Hum. YOu would think in this century with an agency like the UN they could figure out the countries that would go into crisis like Darfur and be a little pro-active. But yet, they don't. Change will happen alright, but it won't be humans that effect it.

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