Good God in Heaven, why are we not doing anything?
I'm am watching The Devil Came on Horseback on the Netflix Instant Movie Viewer right now. If you have a Netflix account, you can open up MS Explorer and watch this painfully vivid and honest documentary right now. It's so strange, to be mopping my floor, doing my dishes, fixing lunch for my kid (I certainly don't feel like eating) ... and in another country people are being raped, beaten, murdered, and burned - fathers, mothers, little children. In this poor poor country with so little as far as natural resources, where these people were born and struggle to survive ... I want our government to help - government is there to help with the big things, to organize where individuals can't. This is much worse than what the Iraqi people were facing; if we claim to care about life and liberty ... the Iraqi people weren't begging us to come save them from their government; we were preemptive. The Sudanese are begging for us to help. We can't sit around. We can't let governments kill their people. Isn't this what the UN security council for?? People say the US can't go around the world and fix everyone else's problems, so we just do nothing?? We still feel so strongly about 9-11 and the few thousands of innocent people who lost their lives. In Darfur: 400,000 dead, 2.5 million displaced.
Go visit blog.mawbooks.com and see if there is anything you can do to help her in this noble and necessary cause. Also, send some emails to your senators and the ones who want your votes for president, too. Tell them we think it is important. Tell them where WE want US troops sent. They work for us and if they won't do the jobs we tell them to, fire them!
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hmmm... to quote a controversial woman I listened to recently, "just because we can't solve all the problems is no excuse to do nothing!"
This has always been confusing to me- our nation choosing to intervene with certain situations but barely even acknowledging hideous situations with murderous dictators and genocide- Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Cambodia- we did nothing about any of the tragedies and the deaths that took place in those countries.
Our administration has not even acknowledged that what is occurring in Sudan IS genocide, or the same in Rwanda. They hem and haw over semantics while more and more people die. It is hideous and utterly irresponsible.
Oh but wait, how long did it even take for our government to really help in NOLA, a city that still hasn't fully been rebuilt. I guess if a place is oil rich, we'll step in. Otherwise, nahhh.. Oh or if the US can support a leader who is anti-communism, that is cool too
(even if they violate human rights for years- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/world/americas/11pinochet.html)
This does not look like the type of thing you were looking for to cheer you up.
And I completely agree with all said. I do have one other comment personal to my own heart.
What about taking care of our own country? I look at the billions of dollars going out of the country to liberate the Iraqi people, yet there are so many problems here in my own backyard.
It is really hard for me to support the war, not because of the soldiers, because they are doing what is honorable, but for the money we are shoving into thier economy when ours is in the pits.
Just my 2 cents!
I have been following your blog for a couple of weeks now. WOW! I thoroughly enjoy reading everything you put up. I absolutely love that you aren't afraid to stand up for yourself or things you feel are right.
If I had to write a letter about you in high school I would write: I knew who she was from seeing you in the school plays and hanging out with Greg, but I didn't know her well enough to know the kind of incredible mother, woman, and example to me she would become.
Thanks for your links and information about Darfur, because of your willingness to help bring awareness it brought awareness to me (I mean I knew it was going on, but not how I could get involved).
Joanne McMillan
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