Remember Darfur? It's that city in the Sudan that was such a hot topic of humanitarianism a couple of years ago, but since Bush wasn't involved, most of the left has decided to ignore it. Now the "African Union" force that was there to try to keep the peace is going to pulling out, and the slaughter will begin anew. In the interim the rapes, kidnappings, and murders were very prevelant, but now we can get back to good old genocide.

The Iraq debacle can't even hold a candle to what's going on in and around Darfur, but few people seem to care, the U.N. included. In fact, about the only people that ever talk about Darfur anymore are right wing bloggers. Unfortunately the fact that someone like Glenn Reynolds thinks it's important to prevent mass slaughter of innocents in Africa means that many people who identify themselves with the left are going to ignore the issue. You see, many people (not all, or hopefully even most) care much more about defeating Bush than actually helping anyone, and since Bush has had very little to do with Darfur, there's no real point in talking about it. There's also the fact that the U.N. was supposed to take care of the situation there. In this day when the U.N. is supposed to be the wise peacemaker of the world, it does not help the left's political agenda to point out the U.N.'s complete and total failure to prevent mass slaughter that approaches genocide, which, by the way, was one of the primary purposes of the U.N. when it was first created.

Again, not all the left is so careless about who and what they support. The problem is that the people on the left who are more about doing the right thing and helping people, and only care about defeating Bush because they think it would make the owrld a better place are marching hand in hand with groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. When you have the same goals as an avowed terrorist organization, then maybe you should rethink your priorities. A person can dislike Bush and the US involvement in Iraq without holding hands with terrorists, communist groups, and other anti-American folks, yet too many people seem to find that the best and easiest route to getting their voices heard.