NYT: Day 141 of Bush's Silence

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/opinion/31kristof.html?hp

Day 141 of Bush's Silence

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: May 31, 2005
Nyala, Sudan

A reader from Eugene, Ore., wrote in with a complaint about my harping on the third world:

"Why should the U.S. care for the rest of the world?" he asked. "The U.S. should take care of its own. ... It's way past time for liberal twits to stop pushing the U.S. into nonsense or try to make every wrong in the world our responsibility."

And while that reader wasn't George W. Bush, it could have been. Today marks Day 141 of Mr. Bush's silence on the genocide, for he hasn't let the word Darfur slip past his lips publicly since Jan. 10 (even that was a passing reference with no condemnation).

There are several points I could make to argue that it's in our own interest to help Darfur. Turmoil in Darfur is already destabilizing all of Sudan and neighboring Chad as well, both oil-exporting countries. And failed states nurture terrorists like Osama and diseases like polio, while exporting refugees and hijackers.


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[FloridaPat]

1. Give * a break. He's too busy committing genocide in Iraq to

help out in Darfur. (Yes, you can read that two ways). And I don't believe the liberals invaded Iraq.

[agincourt]

2. janjaweed say 3 times we offer bin laden to Clinton,

Pigboy media repeat it over and over whether true or not. Bush and neo-cons now very good friends with sudanese genocidists and rapists.