Monday, April 25, 2005

Sudan

Disgusting.

For the past two years, Sudan's western Darfur region has been the setting of an orchestrated campaign of murder and pillage. Last fall, Colin Powell called the killings in Darfur "genocide." Estimates of the number killed vary from 70,000 to over 300,000. So many villages have been torched and plundered that it seems as if everyone in Darfur has taken shelter in refugee camps. Of 2.6 million people in all of Darfur, an arid region the size of Texas, more than 2 million live in the camps. This is one of the largest humanitarian crises of modern times.
This from Jonathan Karl, senior foreign affairs correspondent for ABC News.
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Where is the outcry over this? Where is that great moral conscience of our time, the international community?
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Apparently they can only get worked into a lather when the U.S. liberates a country from dictatorship. Their refusal to protest the killing in Darfur exposes their moralalizing for the grandstanding that it is. They don't care a whit about the people or Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else. Their agenda is purely anti-American.

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