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Thursday, 24 February 05 ::
sudan
i wrote this letter to my congressman, peter defazio, in reaction to this article about the sudan (username: riverblog, pw riverblog).
Hi Congressman DeFazio,
I'm writing because not only are you my congressman, but because you are a good man.
I read about the Sudan on a semi-regular basis. Each time I read something I become disappointed in myself that I've not done something, and I become disappointed in our country. Here we have been donating millions upon millions of dollars for the victims of the tsunami, but we have barely noticed the Sudan. What is going on there is what went on in Germany, Poland, all of Europe, during World War II. Vice President Cheney was just at Auschwitz saying "not again." But it is happening now, it has happened again. Different time, different circumstances, same thing.
Why is it that our country, that you and your collegues in congress, has / have not done anything? Why is it that President Bush is not asking Former Presidents Clinton and Bush to head up a task force to see what we as Americans can do to stop this? Why are we turning a blind eye?
There are so many problems in our own country, and we should solve those things close to home before we go elsewhere, but as you and I know, our country doesn't do that. The war in Iraq is one clear example. What was happening in Iraq before we went there does not hold a candle, in my opinion, to what is happening in the Sudan. If we went to Iraq to save them from a dictator and give them freedom (one of the many many reasons I've heard we went there), why can we not go to the Sudan to give them life?
I want to know if there is anything you can do. I want to know if there is anything that you and your collegues would be willing to do. I understand that President Bush won't take this on, I understand that saving dying Africans is not at the top of his list, but it should be.
Thank you.
posted by brooke at February 24, 2005 09:37 AM
