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Bryan; I would love to see regimes like Bashir’s ended forever.

Ending forever isn’t the problem, having and will last forever is.

Africa is the very best way in the world to waste American lives.

It’s all very sad to everyone with a heart but many thousands of years of genocide will not stop.

I was just going to ask..WHY do we have, and support the UN any longer?

I think the ugly truth is that it’s hardwired into our cultural psyche that the UN is a good thing. Every smart person I know still clings to the “Well, we should really get UN approval before blahblahblah” as if the UN’s blessing has any moral currency. For whatever reason, people want to believe that the UN can be some ideal community of nations that respects human rights and works for social justice or whatever, if we just give it another chance.

It’s embedded in our circuitry. It would take a world war to change that circuitry at this point.

Darfur is exactly why there’s a UN, to deal with atrocities like Darfur, and it’s exactly why the UN we actually have is a pathetic POS.

I was just going to ask..WHY do we have, and support the UN any longer? The criminal Kofi Annan family is gone, with way too much of the worlds UN money, but how bad is it still? Criminal charges should flow out of there like hot oil, but they don’t.
It would take an army of CPA’s a year to figure out how bad it is in the bay that should have sunk. But we’ll put another few BILLION $’s into the pit, and still get blamed for all the worlds woes.

Paint a tear to raise awareness, show support for Darfur on Thursday

This Thursday, I urge you students to participate by drawing or painting a red tear below your eye and to think about those far more desperate and in need than us. Let us not sit by and let another genocide occur but instead look upon our past failures to act as reminders that it is our duty as human beings to speak up and help the cause.

Don’t just “sit by”– paint your face like a clown. Jihadis fear clowns.

Does this require endless war..not really. But if you can’t agree on taking out the obvious and most doable, Saddam…any hope of finding a REAL solution is a fallacy.

People will continue patting themselves on the back and saying they care…Live aid and garbage like that. That is putting the cart beyond the horse. It is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Just crank up a factory for a couple of weeks to make the good old WWII Liberty Pistol – “the only gun that takes longer to reload than to make.”

I can’t verify it from here behind the work firewall but this link appears to be a discussion of it.

Basically it’s a .45 that in WWII was made in something like 23 seconds – mostly stamped and folded. Came with 10 round of ammo and a pictorial user’s guide. They were air-dropped into France to soften things up before the Allies went in.

The Liberty Pistol’s sole purpose in life is to let you get a better gun from a bad guy.

I absolutely agree that they’re nearly useless against a full-auto AK-47. But if you have a mob of 50 people with them, and one or two thugs with AK-47s… well, pretty soon you have a slightly smaller mob with 50 Liberty Pistols and two AK-47s.

Does that sum it up?

This job is not for American forces, which are needed to deal with situations in which we have a national interest (other than our altruistic interest in preventing bloodshed). Let the worthless countries, like Germany, Belgium, and Canada send troops to Darfur. I’m serious. It might actually help.

That is the world we have. And that world is why Darfurs happen and why they will continue to happen.

Exactly right. The United Nations won’t do anything about Darfur – other than engage in their “customary child rape” as Mark Steyn would say. And the moment U.S. troops get within a mile of the Sudanese border, suddenly we’ll be oil-hungry occupiers.

I hate opinion polls.

The Left, tinfoil hatted loons, socialists, communists and any other “ists” won’t do anyting but open their mouths and talk, talk, talk. They never have and they never will.

Hey, I say send John Kerry over there to use his influence with France and his other buddies to take care of this business.

You are right, Wade, we are just too busy right now.

Hopefully that disgraceful organization will no longer exist and New Yorkers can reclaim Turtle Bay, a couple of hundred historic brownstones, and about 15,000 badly needed parking spaces.

Darfur doesn’t impact our national security

Au contraire. Failed states do impact our national security because they are like festering wounds where the jihadis can recruit and operate without worry about the local government crashing the party. That’s why Somalia was an ongoing threat, why Darfur is an ongoing concern, and why other failed states in Africa and Asia are a concern.