The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil....

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. This Edmund Burke quote is so powerful and so true. The current situation in this world reflects this quote now more than ever. I just watched a documentary entitled "The Devil Came on Horseback." It is a film put together telling the story of a retired US Marine that went to Sudan to monitor the cease fire agreement of the 20 year civil war that went on there. While there on this mission he heard of the brewing conflict in the Darfur region and volunteered to go into this region and monitor the cease fire that had just been signed in that region. So he went into this region with the African Union forces armed with nothing more than a camera to document and send reports back up the chain of command. How is one supposed to monitor and enforce a cease fire armed with nothing but a camera and words? When you are fighting an evil that is out for the complete and utter destruction of a specific race of people, words do nothing. Sadly the United States and the rest of the world have only lobbed words at these people. This has become the policy of so many nations. We put economic sanctions on nations that are out for nothing more than wiping an entire people off of the face of this earth. Why are we using the weapon of words when the only weapon these people understand is the AK-47, the Attack Chopper, and the tank? In this movie then Senator Obama says that for the Washington to do something they need to know it is something that is important to the people of the United States. Why would we as an American people whose nation is founded on the principle that ALL men are created equal not be outraged at the fact that these people are being systematically slaughtered all because they arent like someone else? I know we in the history of our nation have had some things that we are not proud of but that should not stop us from standing up for the rights of others. We stood by for a long time in Iraq and let the evil of Suddam Hussein triumph, we finally stepped in and did something. We stood by for a long time and watch the evil of the Taliban triumph in Afghanistan, and finally stepped in and did something about it. Both times it took force to displace these evils, it was not a show of sanctions. It took getting in there and ousting the offenders with force. I know that sending American men and women into harms way is never something we want to do. It is never something we enjoy doing. We often times after sending our men and women abroad to stop atrocities forget why it is that we do that and stop our support for those efforts. We did this with Vietnam, we are currently doing this with both Afghanistan and Iraq. Now I am by no means saying that we have run things on those two fronts the way that we should have. Our leaders have made mistakes but everyone is human and cannot be perfect in everything that we do. There was only 1 person in the history of mankind that was perfect and it isnt George W Bush, it isnt Barack Obama, it isnt Bill Clinton, it isnt Ronald Raegan, it isnt you, it isnt me. Everyone makes mistakes, we need to learn from those and change. We good men need to step up and do something so that the evils of Darfur do not continue. The possibility of sending in troops does not appeal to us but it continues to be the only thing that people understand.