George Cloony, You're My Hero
It's quite widespread, now, George Cloony's pronouncement that we ought to really do something about Darfur. (note: he appears to be carrying a DVX 100 in the video)
Austin Bay has a really great link discussing this issue - the most interesting bits, to me, are his absolute dismantling of the hardcore lefty commentors who come across as knowing nothing on the issues at hand.
Mark Steyn disses on Cloony for being a hypocrite because if you actually were to look at the issues in Darfur and those in Iraq, the striking similarities. Yet, where was Cloony in 2003, when he could've stood up and led liberal Hollywood to support the war?
But let's not miss the point here - a) Cloony cares and is not a fool and b) He is becoming more and more politically active and c) This guy is a leader.
I could be an ass and a meanie and assign all sort of ulterior motives to his Darfur speech. Perhaps he envisions a political career. Perhaps he wants to appear tough. Perhaps he's a phony and says - we really ought to do something about Darfur, but isn't really willing to see the logic through - the logic that knows the UN will do nothing about Darfur, like it did nothing in Rwanda or Bosnia - and the inevitable conclusion that if anything is to be done about Darfur, it will be from the Anglosphere (US, Britian, Australia, and Canada) and it will incite more anti-American hatred in the Muslim world. Sound familiar?
I like Cloony. How can you not? But if he's going out and talking foreign policy, he ought to be pressed - what Darfur and not Iraq? What is the difference? And what should our policy be other than asking nicely for them to stop killing people.
3 comments:
There are hundreds of thousands (that's more than 100,000!!!) of people dying in Darfur! Many of them victims of starvation due to the fighting.
This has never been the case in Iraq.
That's one reason this is different.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/kurds/attack.html
first of all, it most definitely happened in iraq - see the link. but granted, it was not happening immediately, as it seems to be in darfur.
Where was Clooney and all those who are so interested in Dafur or even Iraq
When almost 3 million Psgan animist and Christian peasants were being butchered at the hands of Islamic Jihadists in Southern Sudan?
Where were your exclamaition points of hollow sounding outrage then chuck d?
The World and Clooney act like Dafur is something new.
between 5 and 10 million dead, 50 to 100 Million displaced. Not hardly a SINGLE religion NOT attacked worldwide as a result of Jihad.
Most of the Deaths and slaughter having nothing to do with the US and our policy towards Israel?
When will the world wake up, smell the cordite and realise we are in the MIDST of a global conflict with an implacable foe, who desires our total destruction?
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