Does anybody care about the mass slaughter of innocent people in Sudan? Or do we say, What's 1 more holocaust?

Question

Why does the world (and USA) ignore the truly horrible tragedies going on in the world? I don't get it. Do you?

Answer 1

The USA does not ignore it. Bush and the conservowackos ignore it.

Answer 2

I'm not sure if a question referring to care and genocide is the most applicable, since you'd have to have no soul or conscience to say you don't give a damn. The issue as the folks above have brought up is awful with a corrupt government and "terrorist-like" militia. It is really a ethnic issue with the native Africans and the Islamic Africans, broken down further into pastoralists and herders. The UN is doing good in the region but is being stifled by the government of the Sudan, even though the African Union has already expressed they cannot perform the tasks needed to hold a peace in the Sudan. There are a lot of similarities between the attrocities in the Sudan and the breakdown of Yugoslavia after Tito's death. The differences stem from political interest in eastern Europe (where some big war was ignited) and having a Nato base in Northern Italy, amongst other things. Africa, for the most part, has always been low on the US list of national interests. The Sudan, as bad as it is, is actually quite a bit less deadly and caustic as the conflict (and previous war) in the Democratic Republic of Congo...largely due to the Hutu forced out of Rwanda and resource wealth in the DRC. But I suppose this is getting off tope...

Answer 3

Its not just the Sudan, its all over Africa. The US has seemingly decided that Europe can "fix" Africa since they created the problems in the first place. The main reason this won't work is that Europe is still meddling in Africa, allowing these examples of genocide to continue while they pillage Africa's natural resources from under their noses. They keep the civil wars going and profit from the sales of arms to all sides.

Since the constant state of civil war keeps everyone in poverty they'll take what ever they can for anything they can get from out of the ground such as diamonds, cocoa or col-tan.

The European companies make a huge profit and the poverty stricken African workers get to live another day.

The reason the US can't get involved in Africa is that we would be fighting the French, Russians, Belgians and Germans, not on the floor of the UN, but in the jungles and deserts of Africa.

And the Europeans complain we don't give enough to charity, which is a lie, we give the most when private and faith based charities are added in. But they want us to give more because they know most donations to Africa wind up being funneled to Belgium for Russian arms that keep the political instability going so the wars and genocide continue.

The UN won't do anything and they know the truth. They know the US won't pull out of the UN, but France, Germany and Belgium may convince many other European countries to do just that, or at the least withhold financial support. The UN is afraid of the EU because the UN cannot function without the financial support of the USA or the political power of the individual EU countries.

I do get it. Do you?

Answer 4

Does anyone care? In short...No. Why? Because there is no economic reason to care. The Sudan means nothing to anyone and as sad as that may seem human suffering means nothing until it impacts you.
Don't believe me? Think about the inner city. No one in the burbs gives half a care when they hear of one hood killing another or whatever. They hear it on slow news nights and just shrug...now let one of those hoods come to the mall and shoot a prep star football star or something. Ah...the world is ending. How could such a good kid get killed? blah blah.
Or think about how natives have been driven out of the US or Australia. Now one care and even villified the victims of the time. Now we pay lip service and talk about how bad it was to clear our guilty collective conscience. Same will happen with Sudan. People will continue killing and once they are finally done and everyone will look back and there will be some lipservice and a few memorials but that's it.

Answer 5

Yes, I care but since the UN is in charge you might as well say your prayers for the dead now. If you want something done in the Sudan stop looking to the UN for answers, lobby our congress and senate to take action, let's just add it to the list of evil empires and realize the government in charge are can it be true Muslims, there go those religion of peace guys again, their target, Christains maybe it is time to bring back the crusade and recapture the Sudan. After seeing how well the UN handled Rwanda, why are we even pretending they will save Sudan?.

Answer 6

Sudan is a tragedy!

We need to strong Un force to go in there, and restore peace to this beautiful land.

The UN is the only thing that can save Sudan from self-destruction.

Answer 7

OK I new some was going to start with this and the answer is no i don't care about what any other country's problems and I 'm tired of listening to those who say we need to do more abroad .


what we need to do is focus as a nation on our leaders and what their going to do to start putting this great country back on track with its original conception please what about all those Americans that have no health insurance or the fact that on of the countries first manufactures has to seek foreign labor in order to save money and how about the fact that their are still 500,000 homeless Americans in the wake of Katrina and there is still no work for those who will be loosing there jobs as of 2008 so please tell me what the heck can we do for those in Sudan besides arming them so they can kill each other or figure out for themselves that living in compromise is better than dieing vain

Answer 8

Do you care about the mass slaughter of innocent people in Palestine and Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and Kashmir? No, you don't. For you are the murderer and the judge. The terrorists fighting the Sudanese government are nothing but your own proxies and they will have to be eradicated.

Answer 9

Saddam got away with mass murders until President Bush stopped him, now look how the American people and the "human rights loving" liberals are treating him.

Let's face it, unless they are endangering our suburban homes and gas guzzling SUVs, there is little interest in intervening.

It really is too bad . . .

Answer 10

no I don't get the inhumane,, cold hearted attitude of many on the far-sides,, right or left,,, but we must remember,, their brains have been programed,,, so much is left up to those who were either smart enough, fortunate, or fated to want to do more like Clooney, father and son (one.org),,, Jolie, Penn,, and many other Hollywood and other types of philanthropists, like Gates, Warren, Winfrey,, the other anonymous worldwide,, who truly just have heart,,,, ya gotta have heart.....

Answer 11

Everyone is afraid to do anything because it is Muslims doing the killing. Everyone is scared shtless of them. Do you think France, with its angry, seething 25% muslim population want to take the forefront on that action?