Tell me about your mother....
why worry about a foreign country teaching kids that blacks are evil and need to be killed. We used to do it here and then dance in the streets and take group photos of everyone who helped in lynching the nigger. Good old boys used to drive there familys for hours to take part in the celebration.
That's old news, Dingo- and not quite today's reality. It may not yet be perfect, but it's getting better, day by day.
But were the same true in the Arab world.
darn it!
i love the mote in your eye...
it's soooo purty...
Maybe I was not entirely clear. I really wasn't coming from the "can't we all get along" tack. If we could Darfur would never have happened. My point is at this point trying to point to the U.N. or the U.S. as being at fault for the things that are occurring doesn't really make a whit of difference to the women and young girls that have been mutilated and raped. What matters to them now is figuring out how to cope, how to go forward with life, and how not to have it happen again. The problems DO need to be identified so that they can be prevented. But trying to point the finger at a single nation or organization is counter productive when the truth is rape, incest, mutilation (of the genital variety or not) occurs in our own back yard as well, but it is easy to overlook it because it has not happened on the massive scale here that it is in the middle east and Africa. But it is an epidemic... a quiet one, right here in our own country. What good does pointing the finger do the survivors. In a way, we are all culpable, as people, as nations, as organizations... as individuals. We are all our brothers keepers. The responsible thing now is to help, not scream about who's at fault.
I guess my point is it's time to back up our mouths with action. That's all.
So what is it as individuals, as states, as a nation, as organizations can we do to do damage control, and set up preventitive measures?
Like the Japanese proverb, "Fix the problem, not the blame."
And, SC&A, the "easy answer to your question" is:
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
--George Santayana
Square1's right.
when do we send the troops in?
I mean, if we take the number of people getting killed each day, wouldn't our 220billion be better spent in Sudan than Iraq?
I'm not questioning the wisdom of being in Iraq. I'm not even saying we're not doing great work there. I'm just thinking there's only so much money to go around, and after all, there's more dead people (or people about to get that way) in Darfur.
Why aren't we doing anything?
Sarcasm aside, what gives?
Who's in charge? Whom do we call?
If you look at the number of "attempted attacks on Americans" over the past four years, I'm sure you'll find it is greater than 1.2 million. Just because the perpetrators were Americans and the attacks were not caused by religious differences, you dismiss them.
Let's be honest, you just don't like 'em people... c'mon... we like you... you can say it...
Miguel I was not at all insinuating that SC&A didn't care about the things going on in our back yard. I was simply stating that places like Darfur and Sudan are upfront, in our face because of the massive scale. That it is easy to trivialize the same sort of issues here because we only hear about it on a case by case basis and not en masse. Wherever it happens it's unnacceptable, and we are all responsible for preventing it.
ok... got it.
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