Hotel Rwanda
I just finished watching Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda•. This is really a must-see movie for everyone, everywhere. This sort of thing happens way too often--and without a brave hotel manager lucky and resourceful enough to save a few tenths of a percentage of people.
I’m in the middle of writing a piece on when it is or isn’t right to intervene in another country (which may or may not ever get finished). I don’t know if we’re right to intervene in Iraq. But sometimes it is right to intervene in the face of state-sponsored killings.
- Hotel Rwanda•
- This is a great movie with fine acting on everyone’s part, but especially Don Cheadle. And it’s also an important movie with a very important message.
- Genocide Intervention Fund
- “The Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF) aims to increase public awareness about genocide and support government policies, organizations and initiatives designed to help prevent and stop genocide.”
- OutNow Interview with Paul Rusesabagina
- “When Rwanda was given to Belgium as a protectorate in 1923 they didn't change the policy either. They went on by writing the ethnicity in every identity card. Which was a very big mistake.”
- Schinder’s List (DVD)•
- In my opinion, Steven Spielberg’s best film. About a war profiteer and the great things he did in a war.
More genocide
- A little hypocrisy in Ron Paul reporting
- If you support a hypothetical war against Germany just to end the holocaust how can you oppose the much easier war against Iraq to end the genocide there?
- Hangover on Miracle Monday
- “There is a right and a wrong in the Universe.” So, yeah. Good morning to you, too!
- Taliban revisionism, historical amnesia
- It might not be wrong to leave oppressive murderers in power in other countries. It is wrong to pretend that that isn’t what we’re doing. It is wrong to pretend that apathy in the face of oppression is a noble effort.
- The ultimate question of Bush, Iraq, and genocide
- News sucks. Really, I just don’t understand how headlines and stories are chosen. Dog bites man can be a story, if that man is George Bush.
- When is it right to stop mass murder?
- The question about the war in Iraq isn’t how many people died. It’s whether or not we can ever be justified in removing another government that engages in mass murders of its own people.
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