Clooney speaks of Darfur horrors

There's an awful lot of sarcasm directed at Clowny on this thread. We should understand that his unsight and wussdom into the ways of the world are boundless. He's almost right up there with Barbara Streisand in foreign policy expertise. Surely, a few Kofi peacekeepers could clear this Darfur mess in a jiffy!

Uh huh. The same UN that ran the Oil For Food program and the same UN whose peace-keeping troops raped and murdered Rwandans. George Clooney doesn't have the slightest idea interjecting the UN into Darfur would only give international consent to the slaughter going on there. But I forget. To liberals, the UN can do no evil.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

Liberals support Darfur because America has no vital interests there. Liberals oppose Iraq because America has vital interests there. Passing a "global test" is liberals' chief means of determining when and where to support and oppose intervention. If the UN and the Europeans are in favor of intervention, liberals are automatically for it. If the UN and the Europeans oppose the intervention, liberals are automatically against it. Above all, liberals must NEVER support anything that makes America look good.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

My flat-mates had the telly on last night and we looked over at one point during the news and saw that the BBC had Clooney in an interview. We had the sound down quite a bit so at first we couldn't work out what he was talking about. He was dressed in a very sober suit and the BBC had placed him in front of a display of world flags with the UN flag in the middle.

Even after I figured out what he was talking about, it just wouldn't click together. Why had the BBC used him to comment on Darfur? One of my flat-mates offered that he (Clooney) had just come back from a couple weeks in Darfur but I'm thinking- 'ok, so even if he does know more than me about it, there must be at least 10 million people out there who know a helluva lot more than George Clooney about it'.

And it begs the question- if George Clooney can become an expert for having spent a couple weeks in Darfur, does that not mean that the average soldier on the ground in Iraq/Afghanistan is also an expert concerning their own respective theatre of operations?

Won't be holding my breath waiting for the Beeb to interview any soldiers who think we ought to lay waste to Arab terrorists...

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