Letters to the Editor
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Listening
How to fix Darfur? Well, I'm not exactly sure, but I would like to think that my tax dollars help pay some people at the State department who could maybe think of a few ways to begin to address the problem. Someone in our government thought it was our job to "fix" Iraq a few years ago, which by current standards, wasn't even all that broken. Granted, the wheels have come off, but it doesn't necessarily hold true that the same situation would be created by US interest and/or intervention in Darfur.
More significantly, you missed the point of the earlier poster's letter which was not to criticize our government for failing to intervene in the Darfur genocide, but instead was intended to point out that even lefty sites such as Salon act like Darfur doesn't exist. I find that a compelling question. Why don't you? My assumption is that because you can't imagine a way to solve the problem, you would rather not have to hear depressing news. Am i right?
Oh, and so that this is not COMPLETELY off-topic, I would like to say that I have really appreciated the reviews from Sundance this week, particularly of Black Snake Moan and Hounddog. Interesting that both were reviewed in the same week as it was announced that a white former sheriff's deputy, long presumed dead, had been arrested for the murder of two 19 year old black males in 1964.