After issuing all the requisite distortions and oversimplifications about Darfur – you can start here for a corrective – neocon Max Boot hits the American antiwar movement where it … um, I’m not sure where it hits us:
- Remember how exercised everyone around the world was about crimes committed at Abu Ghraib? Infinitely worse deeds are being done in Darfur daily. Where’s the outrage? The street rallies that might spur Western governments into action? Aside from a handful of journalists and human rights activists, the only Westerners who’ve shown sustained interest in Sudan are evangelical Christians, who’ve been exercised primarily about the fate of their coreligionists in the south. The silence of the “antiwar” masses speaks volumes about their priorities: They don’t object to war crimes as long as they’re not committed by Americans.
If you really need a response to this, check Charles Featherstone and Anthony Gregory.