When I think of the Sudan, the first thing I think isn’t “It’s China’s fault.”
Don’t Muslims and their world-wide Ummah get blamed for anything anymore?
Who’s Spielberg? (haven’t been to a hollyweird movie in 30 years).
I forgot using your Christians for an Organ Bank... that's "ok." What the heck.
While it is commendable for Spielberg to protest China’s lack of action concerning a truly reprehensible situation (that once again involves the religion of peace), I do not know if the Olympic Games are the appropriate venue. The Games are supposed to be a break from the contoversies of the world, not an opportunity to showcase them.
Despite the economic and foreign policy diasasters, Jimmy Carter still had a shot at a second term until he decided to boycott the Moscow Games. I believe that, more than anything else, ended his political career.
Lipstick on a pig.
And what state was Mr Spielberg's conscience in during Saddam Hussein's reign of oppression and genocide?
Good for Spielberg... “Saving face” is crucial to the Chinese, especially with the world focusing on its Olympics. Stepping down was the right move.
Typical western historical myopia combined candle lighting crisis of the week hippy activism.
Sudan has been in a state of a civil war since 1955 with only an interlude of 11 years of peace. The darfur conflict is just another side conflict of the second Sudanese civil war that is still raging. The war which has already claimed 2 million dead and is the most destructive in terms of human life since WWII.
This is akin to shrill outcries about a cat being runover by a car while the same accident mangled 20 other people in a massive pileup just a few feet away.
What these imbecilic activists don’t realize is that the only way to end the conflict is to make the “deh deh dehs” realize that killing each other over whose turn it is with the goat is a bad idea is the first step towards peace.