Darfur Rally Over
For the past number of weeks I have been fully consumed with planning “Save Darfur Now: Rally to Stop Genocide.”
The Rally was a tremendous event yesterday and I hope that it showed the American Government that we need them to do more to help the innocent people being slaughtered everyday in Sudan.
With that said, I am happy to be finished and back to work full time on DoubleSpeak…Stay tuned for our best episodes yet!
May 1st, 2006 at 1:06 pm
I certainly hope the current summit between the government and rebel groups can be salvaged–the potential collapse of talks is a very troubling development.
I have some friends who attended this event, and I challenged them to explain the seeming incongruity between their views on military intervention in Iraq and Darfur.
To my surprise and relief, my friends seemingly had good answers. They were not advocating unilateral military intervention to promote human rights and democracy in a Wilsonian/neo-conservative fashion. Instead they advocate U.N. and international military action to bolster the African union troops who have the inclination but not the resources to prevent genocide.
As an American and a Jew who abhorrs genocide but fears open-ended U.S. military comittments (especially those wage unilaterally), I think this is probably the wisest course to follow. Questions American might and international genocide are always difficult and discomfiting.