I seriously don't get it.........

[Skybird]

I know - that's one of the reasons why "genocide convention" was implemented - to m ake sure that help in case of immedtae emergncy is mandatory, and not an uncalculatable question of voluntary action - where the lack of any mandatory, binding solidarity could lead to we just have seen in America and her rendezvous with Katrina.

It is politics, yes. seriously flawed politics, having created the most murderous political system our history has ever seen, an international conspiracy of economy and governments to reach and secure the status quo. Compare to what we see today, Stalin and Hitler were dilletants. Orwell was a dilletant, too. Control is not from outside, but inside of people's heads. That way we even manage to hide from our awareness the massacre that we accept to take place. Secret police is no longer needed that way. everyone guards and protects the regime by himself and even does not know it. the vocabulary to cover this is huge. Emotions coming from usage of these magic words are charming. How can it be any diffrent than that we are right in what we think and what we do, or not do?

"Let's be reasonable about it!" - what is that any different than just our valium and justification of inaction?

Concerning troops - if we wpould stop makling arms sales and coprrupt politcal deals with local evil-doers because we expect economical advanatges from that, if we wouldn'T have messed up so damn many places over the last decades for these reasons, the problem wouldn't be so big as it is now. I see no problem why we shouldn'T be able to militarily protect help efforts in meegncy supply operations. western nations are sending hundreds of thousands of troops around the globe for far more idiotic intentions. If Iraq or Afghanistan can be done that way, then operations in Africa or southeast Asia can be done, too.

This is immediate rescue only. There must be a change in global economy and longterm polciy as well, else the blood level sooner or later will raise to our chins and noses.