What did your comment do for the girls that mine failed to?
Thereâs also a change.org petition. Like either that or the White House one will help. (What gets me is the people pushing the change.org petition as if thatâs actually going to do something. Yeah, sure. You have a hard enough time getting anyone in the USA to care that umpteen thousand relatively well-off people could be motivated to take ten seconds out of their day to click a link. Think a third-world government is going to give a pile of excrement?)
About all you can realistically do that might help is write or phone your congressman to let them know how you feel about this. And then maybe Congress can pass a strongly-worded resolution calling upon the Nigerian government to do something. Which the Nigerian government can then also ignore, but then at least theyâll be ignoring someone important.
Perhaps one of the most disappointing things about the Internet era is that it sometimes gives us the illusion that weâre all connected somehow, and that we can change anything in the world if we just care enough about it. Itâs a nice sentiment, but all too often it runs up against the sad, sad truth that sometimes there just isnât anything you can do.
BBC World News 24 is providing coverage. Weâre traveling in SE Asia at present and itâs news here too.
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What exactly do you want to be done? Sending the US military will usually get more people killed than saved. Putting up sanctions will hurt the population for years before some militia supported a junta of a failed splinter even starts to feel it. Ask the UN to do something? Look who is the UN these days. So, what to do? I honestly donât see any options. But I guess it is because I am a racist white male who just doesnât care. Edit: one should at least go after the financiers, some of which seem to be international âcharitableâ organizations. Of course, that will not have short-term effects. Also, when there is a movement of people who want to give money to that militant scum, they will always find a way. Shit Iâm still white, racist, and clueless.
Apparently the group came with multiple trucks and motorcycles.
If you say so.
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Question here, if anyone knows - what is it the blue helmeted UN forces actually do? Anywhere in the world things get really rough, they seem to be on the scene - but although they look military as hell, they never seem to be fighting. Whatâs up with that?
I at least flick through 2-3 Australian news papers each work day, and read quite a bit of news on websites as well. Whilst I certainly concentrate on Australian politics, I do try to read other stories to.
This is the first Iâve heard about this horrible situation.
They arenât really supposed to fight and they certainly arenât âanywhere in the world where things get roughâ, since they need to be invited by a legitimate government.
They look military because they are military because the military has the means and structure to do these monitor-and-advise missions, but they arenât really a expedition force doing mission. At beast they can try to protect civilians.
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Well, Iâm trying to care about this, but an 80-year old NBA owner just made racially insensitive remarks in private. #priorities
You listed some there, but only to knock them down yourself, and then you dismiss your own opinions and standing, fallaciously and preemptively⌠Iâm just not sure what your point is. Is this some sort of hipster triple-lindy?
Iâm pretty sure that this didnât make the news in Nigeria, so it all equals out.
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Iâm trying to figure out reasons why nobody just âdoes somethingâ, because the OPâs idea that âwe donât careâ is obviously not much of an answer.
I tried to be kind of ironic. Wonât anybody think of the children? Why donât we care about Africa? This is all very touching, but hardly to the point.
Thankfully, I have no idea what that means.
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