www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/world/africa/sudan-un-attack-rsf.html
When I was a kid my best friend was a WWII veteran so I gained a healthy skepticism and pride for good wars. Then my eyes were opened to Haiti. Then I went to college and September 11th and a retaliatory war turned into an oil crusade. Then I learned that genocide in Sudan was acceptable until people of conscience intervened. All the while in Haiti I watched correct ambitions repeatedly circumvented and crushed by extreme political and environmental injustice.
Now Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland. Wrong wars and narcissistic blunders. All the while beautiful innocent people are being crucified. We all have to ask ourselves why our conscience accepts the suffering in Haiti, Sudan, Ukraine for decades, and never learns the lesson.
The answer is not even elusive. We know wrong in our gut. We know who is innocent and who the aggressors are and we tolerate the abuses against the vulnerable anyway. This is how moral cancers form. Goodwill is corrupted by bad actors.
We will continue to blunder and spiral into chaos until we learn to be responsible guardians for true signals of justice for the vulnerable and freedom from violence by corrupt actors.
How do I know I’m right, it’s not that complicated. I have always been for the family in Haiti and Sudan that wakes up and fights to survive against forces of oppression around them. Give the sick medicine, the thirsty water, the starving food. All we have to do is just this, and humanity will thrive.
The rest is noise.