http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:35:08 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/21/132801.php#comment-704637 If your not going to make it your responsibility to help other people, you are no better than the people are killing them. think of the holocaust. 6 million jews were MURDERED becuz of who they were, and the rest of the world knew what was going on, and did nothing. make a choice 704637@blogcritics.org Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:35:08 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/21/132801.php#comment-704635 If your not going to make it your responsibility to help other people, you are no better than the people are killing them. think of the holocaust. 6 million jews were MURDERED becuz of who they were, and the rest of the world knew what was going on, and did nothing. make a choice 704635@blogcritics.org Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:34:37 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/21/132801.php#comment-704634 If your not going to make it your responsibility to help other people, you are no better than the people are killing them. think of the holocaust. 6 million jews were MURDERED becuz of who they were, and the rest of the world knew what was going on, and did nothing. make a choice 704634@blogcritics.org Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:34:33 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/21/132801.php#comment-704599 Since English immigrants want to 'winter' in the Deep South here in the United States along with all the indigenous inhabitants, perhaps the Darfur conflict means some plan to send those back across the Atlantic Ocean -- to Africa. [in Stuart, FL] 704599@blogcritics.org Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:16:52 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/21/132801.php#comment-704564 "Realism" means this. If you are Jewish or black or Asian and not a "Palestinian" - a South Syrian Arab - your death doesn't mean shit. If you are an eastern European, unless the press likes your particular nationality (according to the MSM, Serbs are scum, Croatians are so-so and Albanians and Moslems are saints), you are ignored. I filter all the news I see through that prism, and it gives a very real reading of what is going on. 704564@blogcritics.org Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:16:52 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/21/132801.php#comment-704458 <i>"Realism influences states to pursue their national interests even if they are contrary to the interests of other states and peoples. Morals, ethics, and legality are the least important principles for realists."</i> Personally, the way I look at it is it is the <b>responsibility</b> of a government to look after its own national interests above all else. There is no president of any country that was elected because of a promise to send lots of money to another country. The United States, however does not even approach the "realist" category. We send billions (perhaps trillions) of dollars in aid to countries all over the world (nearly 8 billion to Africa the past year). If Darfur isn't getting it its because we don't trust that the government will use it as intended. 704458@blogcritics.org Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:54:58 EDT