Nicholas Kristof reminds us -- again -- that the genocide continues in Sudan, and the US and the rest of the international community continue to allow it:
Bandages and Bayonets
By Nicholas Kristof
The New York Times
"After more than three years of such brutality, it seems incredibly inadequate for the international community simply to hand out bandages when old women are roasted in their huts and young men have their eyes gouged out. What we need isn’t more bandages, but the will to stand up to genocide."Read more.
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2 comments:
Mr. Kristof,
I agree that Darfur is awful, but do you really think that president Bush should expend limited resources on the genocide in Darfur?
How about the murder of an entire nation (maybe region) and virtually every American soldier involved in the illegal war in the middle east?
We (I am so ashamed, because it is "we") are using WPM in the middle east and we also used them in the former Yugoslavia - DU (Depleted Uranium - U238). The radioactive dust is everywhere in Iraq and being blown throughout the region by the prevailing winds.
How about enlightening your readers about this "genocide?"
To use the president's words...Darfur will be a comma in history if we don't do something about our use of WPM in conventional warfare.
WPM should be WMD.
I am so distressed over this!
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