Darfur: The Lefts New Tibet

Mark Steyn wrote once about people who sport “Free Tibet” stickers on their car bumpers:

[They’re] advertising [their] moral virtue, not calling for action. If Rumsfeld
were to say, “Free Tibet? Jiminy, what a swell idea! The Third Infantry Division
go in on Thursday”, the bumper-sticker crowd would be aghast.’

I thought of such moral vacuousness after reading a local group’s call to “Help end genocide in Darfur”. They would “honor the fallen and suffering Darfuris in a day of films, discussion and dance with a Sudanese dance troupe”

I would think a bake sale to raise funds to arm the oppressed Darfuris would be more effective.
Helping Darfuris defend themselves, however, seems out of the question since the “Save Darfur” group wants to discuss how to put United Nations peacekeepers in place – you know the same folks who didn’t lift a finger to stop the killing in Rwanda, Bosnia, Timor, etc. One would have to think a call for U.N. peacekeepers would only be made by the Sudanese oppressors. Who is “Save Darfur” really working for?

Meanwhile, in the 48th year of the campaign to free Tibet I found this 2007 merchandise sale at the Free Tibet website where “All proceeds from our merchandise range go towards our campaigns to help bring about an end to the occupation of Tibet.” Maybe the plan is to keep collecting money for the next two centuries, let the interest compound and then buy Tibet back from China – assuming there are any Tibetians left.

In his opinion piece on Darfur, Chuck Bruder calculates:

In the time that it has taken to read this, another Darfuri man or woman or baby
has perished.

I wonder if he has calculated how many will die in 48 years of
films, discussions and dance?