I give Clooney credit for actually going to the Sudan and talking to victims who had been raped, beaten, and had their family murdered in front of them. He slept on the floor in 3rd world conditions, along with others visiting the area. Personally - I think looking into people’s eyes while they tell you about the day their soul shattered would be tough. I am glad someone is agitating for the Sudan. Generally speaking, I don’t think the US has money to give unless it is re-routing funds from countries that are at any given moment abusing us and directing those funds to the Sudan.
I think the reason no one is helping the Sudan is because it’s ‘only’ Christians being killed (politically unpopular).I don’t think George realizes that - he can’t understand why the same donors who will fund Muslim or other third world interests will not invest their charity dollars to protect a Christian minority. George is quoted somewhere as saying it’s the biggest failure of his life that he has been unsuccessful in bringing help to the Sudan. He held a telethon and I give him credit for that. I personally don’t think that a rich person must become poor in order to help the poor (give up his wealth). But he has a megaphone (his celebrity) and he is trying to use it to help people who fall below the compassion radar because they are a ‘christian minority’. It may be that the only way George will be able to do what he wants to help the people who shared their suffering with him is to turn a big ugly spotlight on the indifference of donors to help Christians being slaughtered by Muslims. It would make him unpopular but he has played the hero in his own movie about blacklisting due to political affiliation - this would be exactly the stand his ‘hero’ in that movie would have taken.
“I don’t think George realizes that - he can’t understand why the same donors who will fund Muslim or other third world interests will not invest their charity dollars to protect a Christian minority.”
Exactally !! He doesn’t realize....he can’t understand...