I saw a thread about Romeo Dallaire, and MadeInRewind mentioned how there is very little on ILX about Darfur. Which is true. It strike me that this is possibly because there is not really much to say about Darfur - once you get over that what is going on there is horrible and that someone should do something about it you can only really go back to reiterating how horrible it is in an almost voyeuristic manner.
Or maybe people could talk about what exactly should be done and who exactly should do it? I don't know, over to you.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)
some kind of international peace force would be the obvious answer, but who has faith in those anymore?
― darraghmac, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)
i don't know :(
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)
We'll just have to adjust to having international crisis spots where the unhelpful superpower is China. It'll be a strange mix of "disappointment in fading influence" and "relief at getting to blame someone else."
The nearby place where the US may or may not have to take a more personal interest = the horn of Africa, where we're highly involved in stuff that may not go all that well. (I don't think the name "Ogaden" is going to replace the name "Darfur," but still ...)
― nabisco, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)
Any thoughts on what Spielberg and 80 nobel laureates have been doing about it?
Spielberg pulls out of Olympics
― RR, Thursday, 14 February 2008 23:07 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/if_someone_tried_to_burn_my?utm_source=b-section
― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 26 February 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)