Africa has problems. It's not headline news. It's straight fact, and it's been going on for a long, long time. It's sad, horrifying and terrible, especially to a society as relatively spoiled as we are.
Last year a group of kids in my school decided to show a documentary of the Invisible Children, another story of violence, killing, child soldiers and awful ongoings in African countries. But it's not the first I've heard of. I'm sure it's not the last. People urged us to donate money to the cause and I did, our school raised a few thousand dollars that could have helped somehow. But it wasn't enough. The students decided to go to washington d.c. and camp out in front of the whitehouse, begging them to send our soldiers to these places and fix their problems.
Why our soldiers? Don't we have enough problems being in the middle east? Don't we have enough economical problems already, and internal problems that need dealt with?
I don't want the violence to continue. But the fact is that we can not expect to be the ones to stop it. These wars are between the African governments and the African people. I am aware of the European influence, the Hootoos and Tootsies (I'm not sure how to spell them) were created by Europeans. Even so, what can we do to help? And why should we?
I'm tired of people expecting America to solve world problems. We're not world police, and we have some huge issues right now.
But I'm all for sending those campers out to do it. They can go to Africa, get shot by a child soldier and suffer the brutality that exists there. They can realize first hand that there is no easy solution and the best thing that we can do is hope that they solve their own problems or at least wait until we're more stable to do anything about it ourselves.
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I do agree, but there are so many people that would disagree. Those that agree with the war in Iraq would agree to send people over I think (dont quote me). I think they should make a point to say something at the UN meetings for other countries to get involved so the US isnt always sticking out their necks.
Nice blog! TtYl
The worst part is, if you asked anyone of the students who camped in front of the White House if we should be in Iraq, they would be the first ones to say no...they might remark that Iraq is not our fight to be fighting...
If you would ask them if they would join the armed services to help fight in a war torn African country, they would give you an outright no.
These are the same students who if we went to, say, Darfur, and things began to go bad, would be the very first ones bad mouthing the president and other leaders who made the decision.
There are just people out there who protest for lack of something better to do
Most of the reasons why people are so against the war in Iraq is because its starting to gleam through that we are not there for the RIGHT reasons. for the originally intended reasons.
We went there to "promote democracy and fight terrorism."
Its not about the support of what war. its about why.
If government is willing to send our troops to Iraq then they should be sending EVERYWHERE to promote democracy and fight terrorism.
If theyre not willing to do that, then maybe we SHOULDN'T be fighting in Iraq. We started the fight for our reasons....9/11...oil.... whichever you choose the government has plenty....but that quickly faded and now its NOT about us anymore its about "maintaining peace" there and so on. although maintaining peace should not be done with guns, but that's a different story ;p
just keep in mind that the protesters were making a good point whether they were specifically making it or not.