"anger at my own government for not only not intervening to stop it, but instead actually pouring gasoline on the fire by providing arms and money to the perpetrators"- pg 43
This was written about American involvement in Somalia during the cold war and its funding of a dictatorship that did nothing for its people.
This reminded me a lot of what china is doing in Sudan today as well as certain Western companies that fund these dictatorships. The situation is very different today on the other hand. The cold war is over (or so I’m told) and humanitarian aid was not an objective for any government then. It shows how Chinas actions are very similar to that of America during the cold war. It makes me wonder what Chinas intentions are in the modern world. We can only hope that china changes their ways and tries to think about the people they are hurting in these countries that they are exploiting for money at the cost of the civilians.
My opinion on the book thus far isn’t very good. I tire of hearing so much about the author’s lives and I would rather just cut to the chase and start talking about the situation and what we can do. Maybe I’m just impatient but I find it similar to Al Gores Inconvenient Truth, where I heard too much about the author, and not enough about the subject. In this book they even mention that it is not a biography. In addition, after reading a very long non fiction book (The World is Flat) I’m not very patient with non-fiction right now. So far, I’m tired of hearing about personal lives and viewings of Hotel Rwanda, a movie I loved, but I grow tired of hearing about these showings. I am looking forward to hearing the steps for what I can do to help and some of their experiences in Darfur and in neighboring countries.
It was almost impossible to talk about content in our groups mainly because we knew a lot of it so most of it wasn't very interesting. we mainly talked about our opinions on the style of writing. i think a big influence for us is our knowledge on darfur and other genocides. I personally, am pretty bored with the book sofar. i think it probably will get better but i doubt i will walk away unsatisfied with the book, we'll see.
1 comment:
Yo Carl, man I understand where you're coming from, but I've a question about your blog's first paragraph... Do you really think that China would change its ways now, if the US didn't do it until later before? By the way man, I'm also not a fan of non-fiction, but I like it better than an encyclopedia if you come to think about it. Iight that's all I wanted to say. Peace out.
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