Stop Genocide

Eh....it's not the same, I'm afraid.

Was there a genocide declared in Vietnam? Right.

I agree very much so that there is a fine line between foreign aid and imperialism, but this is a humanitarian cause. Yes, this is the same argument that is perpetually used in foriegn invasions, but the absolute atrocities that have been committed merit at least some attention.

Ah, the arugment of hospitals in foreign countries. The United States, I'm afraid, needs to be more than a one-race pony. Putting completele emphasis on domestic problems while wholly ignoring international issues is not, and never will be, the right path. Balance, that's it, balabce.

I recently attended a lecture given by an Sudanese refugee in Louisville, KY. The conflict, he believes, could be settled in one day with the intervention of the United States. Is he being too optimisitic? Maybe, but his comment reflects the inaction taken since he has come to the United States.

"But this is a humanitarian issue."

Aren't they all!

That doesn't give anyone the right to rip off U.S. Taxpayers though does it?

Hey! Here's an idea for you, how about you try to convince another country to solve your problems for you? Say,...Romania or Peru! Or better still, solve your own problems!

And the U.S. needs to get out of the "Refugee" business too! Once they get here they never want to leave in accordance with the Geneva Accords.

We STILL have "refugees" here from Bosnia/ Kosovo and there hasn't been any shooting there in years! When will they be repatriated?

That was another thing we should never have gotten involved in! And we STILL have Troops there for how many years now? At how many tens of billions of Taxdollars?

Just *WHEN* do those countries start paying us back all that money?

But, they can *NEVER* replace the Soldiers who died!

I'm sick and tired of my Troops dying in foreign countries for no reason!

The U..S. is not the French Foreign Legion!

Mate...I think we're getting off-topic. No one is wanting soldiers on Sudanese ground. No one.

We're looking for pressure from the government on China, who has been actively supplying the Sudanese army. Any type of physical interventions should *not* be undertaken by the US. We all know all the problems that has caused.

Also, it's called common courtesy, virtue, maturity: doing good things without expecting anything in return, anyways.

It is our duty as HUMANS to see to it that genocide does not take place.  Remember that saying "Never Again?"  Well it's happening right now and our government has the capacity to make significant change if we were to act on that power.  This is nothing like Vietnam!

We should have learned from our mistakes in Rwanda.  And unfortunately, unless people speak up and put pressure on the government nothing seems to get accomplished.

Chastity, "Never Again?" That slogan is a Jewish slogan adopted after WW2 meaning that they (Jews) will "never again" be treated like they were by the Nazis.

That's what the Jews have decided. It's meant "for" the Jews, otherwise don't you think Israel would have Troops in the Sudan?

And if this is actually a "genocide" how many were killed last week, month, 6 months ago? Got any figures?

"Our mistakes in Rwanda?"

And which "mistakes" did we make in Rwanda? That had nothing to do with the U.S. if a bunch of savages wanted to hack each other up with machetes, what business was that of mine sitting in Woburn, Massachusetts at that time?

(Wasn't Bill Clinton at the helm then?)

It's not the job of our govt to get us involved in the problems of foreign countries! We are not the Fire, Police, Social Workers, "peacekeepers" or anything else sitting around "waiting for the call" of foreign countries!

You're potentially putting some mother's son in harm's way when that happens.

They're not paid to do that kind of thing!

And look what happens if we do like in Kosovo, tens of billions spent, "foreign aid", "nation building", "refugees", "asylum seekers" and it never ends!

If (you) feel so strongly about it and want to play "Great White Bwana"learn to use weapons, get a bunch of like-minded people together and fly over there and start killing the" bad guys." We'll call you "The Lincoln Brigade Two."

And what about (other) African countries? Shouldn't (they) be helping out?

They can contain the problem "in-house" so to speak.

What if they were having a "Genocide" in China? Russia?

The reason why certain people want to try to get the U.S. involved comes down to one word; $money$.

They think that if the U.S. goes over there we'll be building hospitals, schools etc, etc.

I don't want my Taxdollars used like that!

We have 50 million people in the U.S. without health care, should we really be using their Taxdollars to be building hospitals overseas?

Chastity, if you were walking down the street one night and two drunks poured out of a bar room fighting would you go over and get involved in it? I doubt it!

If two guys rob a bank is it somehow "my fault" because they "grew up poor in the inner city with no father figure?"

I joined change.org a few years ago because we have problems in the U.S. that need to be adressed and because I couldn't stand Bush.

I don't understand why there's more of a focus on "foreign issues" now that not a lot care about and that seem to be watering down our other more important issues here like homelessness that we really can help to do something about!

I saw a bunch of people evidently living under a bridge here in S.Carolina a few weeks ago and it disturbed my greatly.

But instead of running around like an hysterical person standing next to a garden hose yelling "Somebody DO something!" while their neighbor's house is on fire I cut an extra check to the local homeless shelter and told them which bridge those people were under and called my congressman's office about getting any kind of help to homeless people.

Trust me, their staffers couldn't care less about "Darfur."

That's not what we're paying them for.