The other night (last week actually) I was watching the PBS News Hours with Jim Lehrer, and Jim asked VP Dick Cheney are you happy with U.S. efforts in getting the problem in Darfur solved...and the VP said he was satisfied...

Now this is some bs...Mind you...I'm not real verse (I try to...) in geopolitical issues especially in Africa but it's obvious...We have seen U.S. capabilities before, from the Balkans in 90s, to Iraq, Indonesia, Turkey, (even Iran) and the Phillippines today (despite these being more natural disasters and "our" war, other than genocide) and their fast intervention with either military or humanitarian action...What have we seen about Darfur?....The last time I saw any footage of US involvement in Darfur, Colin Powell was Sec. of State and he was actually there in the refugee camps...That was the last time I heard or saw some actual US concern....Meanwhile I continue to hear of the vast starvation and the genocide that has been inflicted on the "southern Christian" (the media propagates the struggle as a war between religion: Islam vs. Christianity- they always do) Sudanese cuz of the civil war...Now if death caused by starvation and genocide is the world's, U.S. included, best effort in getting this situation solved, then we are definitely in a world of hurt...

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