Darfur

Great article about Darfur in The New York Times today by Nicholas Kristof.

A reader from Eugene, Ore., wrote in with a complaint about my harping on the third world: "Why should the U.S. care for the rest of the world?" he asked. "The U.S. should take care of its own. ... It's way past time for liberal twits to stop pushing the U.S. into nonsense or try to make every wrong in the world our responsibility."

And while that reader wasn't George W. Bush, it could have been. Today marks Day 141 of Mr. Bush's silence on the genocide, for he hasn't let the word Darfur slip past his lips publicly since Jan. 10 (even that was a passing reference with no condemnation).

Please read the whole thing. Call your senators and your representative. Donate money to savedarfur.org and Oxfam. Call the President. Call Kofi Anan.

Make a difference. Be a liberal twit with me.