Bush has broken his silence on Darfur– at last. What took you so long, Mr. President? I know you’re busy with social security and all, but there are people dying out there. Yes, this is something I am angry with him about. He’s the most powerful man on earth– merely devoting two minutes a day to discussing it in the public would produce drastic results. He waited far too long. At least he’s doing something about it now. I must disagree with him and the South American president, though. I think some troops should be there (yes, ours). We’re streched thing, I know, but I’m sure we could pull together some show of force from the persian gulf and North Korea. Even just a tiny one would make a difference. When people’s lives are at steak, you don’t try and be nice, not wanting to step on political leader’s toes. You do something about it, whether they like it or not. And so far I haven’t seen that from this president. I’m not asking for a lot– just a couple of platoons even. But, seriously. Africa hasn’t handled this properly and I’m tired of waiting on the UN. We need to get off our butts and haul some serious a**. We can talk about how we shouldn’t have to do it, that there are other countries working on it, that we’re busy at the moment, blah blah blah. None of that matters because people are being massacred over there. Forget the politics and start remembering the humanity– you don’t stand around when people are being murdered– that makes you a sharer in the guilt. I don’t want Rwanda all over again. We turned our heads from Germany, from Cambodia, from Bosnia, from Rwanda, will we do it to Darfur, too? I pray not. I won’t. The day I saw the movie “Hotel Rwanda” I promised myself that I would do everything in my power to help the Darfur crisis. So I am. I can only hope that others will do the same– hopefully anyone out there reading this. The best thing to do is to write to your congressman/woman and demand action– more action than what is happening, that is. I’ll make this very clear: no action is good enough unless the killing stops.