Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Ineffectual Posing Against Evil


The conflict in Darfur is a confined territorial war between factions of the fundamentalist Islamic movement and the instigators are now loosing badly. If wealthy western liberals are appalled at the consequences of wealth and weapons combined with a desire for power unchecked by respect for all human life, then the best thing they can do for the situation is shut up and meditate about reality.

The essay Vanity and Force is dead on accurate about the distasteful display of celebrity showmanship while evil men engage in evil actions. Read the whole thing and remember there are absolutely no good guys on either side of Sudan's barbaric power struggle.