[Lorianne]

If the U.N. is too craven to protect its own goodwill ambassadors — because they might criticize genocide — it’s not surprising that it and the international community fail to protect hundreds of thousands of voiceless Darfuris.

Wow, when did Kristof van Winkle wake up? The UN is more than useless (in this situation and any other). It is downright dangerous!

[originalbuckeye]

I have never understood the Left’s whole hearted support for intervention in Darfur. I can't help but think they are only interested in helping where it will not benefit the USA. Now I know that Darfur is a tragedy and the murdering should be stopped but where is the Left’s compassion for the innocent Iraqis that Saddam Hussein was continually slaughtering? Why are we the bad guys in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where are the Feminists? Why are they not celebrating the liberation of millions of Iraqi and Afghani women? The Left’s politics will always frighten and confuse me.

[2banana]

One of the first persons we met was Qatri Ibrahim, a young woman who fled her village when the Sudanese janjaweed militia attacked and shot her 5-year-old and 8-year-old sons. “I’m afraid,” she said grimly. “But there are other people here, so I stay.”

janjaweed = arab-islamic-slave raiding-looting criminals

[DGHoodini]

Liberals...they are like Risk players, who allways leave only one army ad advance with everything they’ve got, until they are overstreched, and being worn down eventually, once a high attrition battle is waged, become easy to roll right over.