Ho Hum, Another Slaughtering Of Innocents

Anyone seen "Hotel Rwanda" recently? The movie is so-so (though Don Cheadle is great) but it does shine a spotlight on the Rwandan massacre which took place over a long period of time while the rest of the world stood by. Bill Clinton says it's one of the most shameful memories he has and everyone, EVERYONE has sworn: Never Again.

Hello, Never Again, as the massacres in Darfur continue and the world watches and doesn't care. NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof interviews an American soldier who is over there right now.

"Every single day you go out to see another burned village, and more dead bodies," said former Marine captain Brian Steidle. "And the children - you see 6-month-old babies that have been shot, and 3-year-old kids with their faces smashed in with rifle butts. And you just have to stand there and write your reports."

Well, I don't know about sending soldiers (do we HAVE any soldiers left to send? Woops, no we don't.) but I can't WAIT to see the Jamie Foxx melodrama "Darfur Daddy" about a concerned American who adopts so Darfur orphans. It should come out in about 2017.