Cross-posted at andrewwarner.org.
Today's front page of the Cincinnati Post (at least the on-line version) has another gut-wrenching story about George Clooney and Darfur.
Clooney sums up the issue well when he explains this issue:
"There is no right or left, there is only right and wrong."
When a "slow-rolling genocide" like this continues to destroy and end countless lives, I start to wonder where the United Nations is, where everyone is, on this issue. It's bewildering to me, and I don't know if because of the distance in miles or the distance between our very different cultures, that the western world continues to allow this to happen.
I obviously wasn't alive during the Holocaust, but the way it is explained in history classes indicates the world is willing to rally behind this type of oppression, this targeted and systematic destruction of certain races, colors, or religions.
How can we choose to ignore this?
I remember as children we used to ask one another, and deeply ponder, whether a falling tree in the woods makes a sound if no one hears it. Now that I am a more capable thinker, I can assure you it does. And whether or not we are in ear shot of the screams that occur during a systematic slaughter, I can assure you, they too make a sound.