President Bush and Darfur

There is an ad running right now, where the voice talent (Allison Janey if I am not mistaken) talks about the horrors (women and young girls raped and murdered, people starving to death etc) in Darfur and how it would all stop if only there was a strong UN presence in the region.

One problem with that.....UN peacekeepers (made up of African Muslims in order to be "sensitive" to the area) are already in the region and they are the ones raping and pillaging!

Someone (in one of my discussion groups) asked why the "left" is all for stopping the genocide in Darfur and yet they were against the US going into Iraq to stop Saddam's genocide. Someone else answered the left didn't want to stop the Darfur genocide because if the did, they would be complaining to the UN who has already issued resolution after resolution after resolution (sound familiar?)...that they just wanted to complain about what this "Republican" president does at every turn. I don't think it is quite that simple. I think that the "left" truly wants to do something to help, but they are simply unable to deal with the fact that some things are not negotiable. No amout of of sanctioning, no amount of negotiation, no amount of reflection or denial will satisfy the Islamists. They want complete and total submission to their will. Don't believe me? Read this, this or this.