Battle Cry of the Yellow-Bellied ChickenDove
May 1st, 2006 at 8:31 am by SmantixTens of thousands of free range, yellow-bellied ChickenDoves escaped their coops this weekend, several years too late mind you, to cluck away about the crisis in Darfur.
I hate to break it to our fine, feathered friends at Belmont University but drum circles and candlelight vigils have never proved to be effective deterrents to genocide:
“We tend to think that this is happening very far away, and it doesn’t affect us,” said Schafer, a co-founder of Tennesseans Against Genocide, a group organizing the local vigil.
“But that’s what Americans thought during the 1930s and early 1940s when they looked at what was happening in Europe. It’s a humanitarian and moral concern. These kinds of nations that do this … they tend to destabilize the entire region. There’s a larger national self-interest here.”
In Washington, the Battle Cluck reached a fevered buk-buk-bakaw:
The Washington event attracted dozens of speakers including Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.); Elie Wiesel, the Nazi Holocaust survivor and recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize; activist Al Sharpton; actor George Clooney; and Joey Cheek, an Olympic speedskater.
“If we care, the world will care,” Obama said. “If we act, then the world will follow.”?
Hold up there. Go it alone? Unilaterally? What crazed PNAC agenda is Obama aiming at for here?
Now correct me if I’m wrong here, but has Sudan ever attacked the United States?
Do they have WMDs?
To suggest that somebody else’s son or daughter needs to go die on the other side of the world is somehow an acceptable solution as long as there is no compelling US interest is beyond offensive after the way The Left has gone after us for ousting Saddam Hussein.
Come on ChickenDoves! Suit up and put your tailfeathers where your beak is!
May 1st, 2006 at 8:55 am
Any attention for Sudan is good.
Sadly, these good-for-nothings make pronouncements then go home feeling good.
Oh yeah, and they’ll get Nobel Prizes for writing bad poetry about it and score bonus points for pointing to White apathy.
May 1st, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Some might say. I’ve tried to draw attention to everything from the Ukraine to Zimbabwe to the Congo.
I just couldn’t be more entertained from the people who now think we should just go handle this ourselves. The same people who think that Iran is not a threat. Or look away at the Human Rights abusing superpowers who are underwriting most of these sorts of tragedies.
But we’re the bad guys. Don’t ever forget that. What’s gone on over there is our fault for not pre-emptively exerting our hegemony earlier.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Just for the record, Elie Weisel was for the Iraq war. Much respect for him.
May 1st, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Weisel was the only person I didn’t want to diss in that quote – I just took it verbatim and didn’t want it to look like I intentionally omitted his name from the record. He’s probably the only one whose intentions are genuine.