Ron Coleman is absolutely correct.
Tonight, on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka, we must be honest: If we knew then what we know now, about the mass killings, the gas chambers, the sick human experimentation, the crematoria — if we knew it were going on right now …
America, and the rest of the world, would not do a damned thing about it.
It is convenient for the celebrity hand-wringers to pout on television and lecture us about how terrible things are in Darfur but none of them – not a single one – has suggested actually stopping the genocide that’s been going on in plain view of the world for years.
This isn’t an isolated incident. It’s been the same story in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia. It’s not just the United States either. In fact, the only nation that’s managed to mobilize some portion of the world and actually stop a genocide in the past 30 years has been the United States. And we did it militarily, after the same old diplomatic platitudes that are being suggested today failed as miserably as they always have.
The United Nations was founded on a simple phrase: “Never Again”. Its purpose was as simple as its founding motto. Nations of the world who had fought and destroyed a genocidal war machine would remain together to make very sure that it never happened again. It has failed miserably and the blood of tens of millions are on our hands because of it.
One could make a reasonable argument that a genocide halfway around the world isn’t our business. In fact, Ace did that very thing this past week to a degree. It’s a crass and hard-hearted argument but when dealing with what is in our best interests as a nation it is an argument you can make and still keep some sort of intellectual consistency.
So let’s ask ourselves a simple question. Will we attempt to stop genocide when we see it, using every reasonable means at our disposal or won’t we? I believe, when it comes to Darfur, we’ve not even seriously tried.
(via Instapundit)
