Did it ever occur to you that a more appropriate question to ask might be “Since it’s so bad in the Sudan, why aren’t all the ‘altruistic’ neo-cons clamoring for a ‘humanitarian’ war there?” Look, neither faction of the Republicrat Party gives two shits about people being killed if there’s no money or political capital to be made by stopping it. Clinton didn’t in Rwanda; Bush doesn’t in Sudan. The media are at best money-grubbing sensationalist whores who will ignore even the most important of stories unless it brings in advertising. I agree with you that the deafening silence on Sudan is far beyond obscene; it infuriates me that people refuse to learn from history, and the complicity of the mainstream media and the power elite is manifest. How many more times will we sit by and watch while genocide happens?