[NutCrackerBoy]

It is the U.S. that is most aggressively pushing for the world to do more rather than less. When activists argue that the U.S. should do even more, they are implicitly conceding that little that is important or controversial in the world gets done unless America leads the way. So, Mr. Clooney, how does it feel to be a unilateralist? -Rich Lowry

[RexBeach]

George Clooney: He's famous therefore he's smart.

I don't think Mr. Clooney could close an umbrella.

[libs_kma]

I Like Lowry. It'd be great to see him debate Looney sometime.

[Billthedrill]

Since the killing in Darfur is perpetrated by Arab Muslims against black Muslims...

And against black Christians and black Animists. This one's Arab vs. Black and because of that the Arab Union isn't really all that interested; in fact, it would just as soon ignore the whole thing because no Arab could ever be racist, right?

This has been going on for a very long time, its roots reaching back into the Ottoman Sultanate. Some background material HERE. It is amusing that such a vocal critic of the Iraq operation as Clooney now demands action on the part of the U.S. Were he to get what he's asking for he'd still find a way to use it to bash Bush.

[hershey]

Excellent. However the Africa lobby has been working hand over fist to put fixing Africa on the top of the US's priority list. In a recent poorly attended seminar, seen on C-Span, they said exactly that. Africa, forgive me, is a tarbaby, and I mean no racist comparison. Just the simple truth. (Like the Middle East, Mexico and the rest of the third world.) Why are we supposed to fix everything? No wonder everyone hates us. There's nothing worse than a meddling busybody -- which my Italian friend calls us. (But she also said Hitler was, all in all, not a bad dictator.)