Priorities…

I went to the rally against genocide today sponsored by Save Darfur. My favorite speaker was Tom Lantos, though I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Barack Obama, George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi, and of course, Manute Bol.  One sign I saw struck me as particularly compelling.  It said “Out of Iraq, Into Darfur!”  From a humanitarian perspective, that’s a pretty tough equation to argue against.  In Darfur, you have the most extreme form of terrorism imaginable – the elimination of a people wholesale.  And Bush hasn’t really done much of anything about it, despite a bipartisan consensus in Congress.

This is shameful.  We can stop this genocide, and we choose not to.