UN Aid cut in half for Sudan.

Looking at those pictures, kind of makes you feel like you should never whine about anything again, doesn't it?

I don't know what the answer is. Clearly, the problems in Sudan aren't going to go away any time soon. Cutting the aid almost seems worse that stopping it all together. Providing a little food, but not even minimally enough, will ultimately lead to fighting over what little food there is, and will also create a worsening health care crisis.

I think that the level and relentlessness of the suffering is beyond what many in more developed countries can comprehend, and it becomes easier to just tune it out. People, in general, are very responsive in a time of crisis...a tsumnami, and earthquake, a hurricane... but ongoing drought and civil warfare in an African desert "loses its appeal" as a cause before too long.

Maybe it's time for another LiveAid?

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Maybe if there were more oil in Sudan, Bush and Cheney would have stepped in.

It almost feels as if there's no solution.

I remember when those pictures of Audrey Hepburn holding the starving children in Africa were first published. The feeling was "This is terrible. No child should go hungry like that. We MUST do something. Howe can we allow this to go on?"

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