[lbo-talk] "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Official "Jewish Leaders"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 28 14:42:06 PDT 2006


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Doug:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Pentagon should be recruited to "save Darfur." For Americans, our
>prime responsibility is to stop the abuse of Iraq, and everything
>else should take a back seat to that for now.
>
>
>[WS:] This statement troubles me a lot, to the point that I am willing to
>risk censure for overposting to answer it. As I read it, it advocates
>abstaining from any action in Darfur before cleaning up the US-created mess
>in Iraq.

I don't think the U.S. government can be trusted to do any good abroad. You wouldn't hire a convicted embezzler as your investment advisor, would you?

Doug



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