Reply #50: No.

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There are some places where outsiders can be of assistance
BUT
military intervention is NOT one of them.

Some of us ARE actually in contact with Sudanese refugees
living in the area and in other refugee camps.
Some of us actually speak the languages
spoken by the displaced peoples
and some of us actually give a damn
for their own opinions of what needs to happen in Darfur.

Mr. Eric Reeves, of Smith College
(which is quite possibly the single most racist institution
that claims to be part of the Ivy League)
does not know of what he speaks.

April 24, 2005
Reeves's transformation from an authority on Shakespeare to a specialist on death in Darfur began in 1998, when he had a conversation with an official from Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian group that he supported with regular donations. That talk persuaded him to become a champion for Sudan.
Since then, he has written opinion articles and Internet postings railing against the Arab government in northern Sudan that has been blamed for spurring a seemingly endless war with rebels in the mostly African, Christian, and animist south. The work became all-consuming. Reeves took two sabbaticals and three unpaid leaves to do it full time.
In 2003, he traveled to Sudan as a peace deal was being hammered out. He returned home exhilarated, but one month later, his world fell apart. A minor sickness he contracted in Sudan led to a checkup that detected leukemia.
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Reeves has attacked nearly everyone involved in Sudan for failing to stop the killings. He calls the United Nations ''incompetent," the president of the African Union a ''shameful" liar, and the press ''irresponsible."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2005/04/24/ailing_professor_fights_for_darfurs_dead/

When someone dies in the US,
people ask the family how they can be of assistance.
Who here dares to barge into a house of mourning and order the bereaved about?
That simply is NOT done
and I for one would gladly assist
in physically removing such a person from the premises.
Wouldn't you?

No,
you wait for instructions and you very politely offer your help and refrain from getting all huffy when the family chooses to do something that you yourself would not do if it were your own relative lying there. You show respect, fellow humans, you show respect when you enter into the house of the family of the deceased.

Black Hawk Down was a movie that was used for propaganda purposes.
It would appear Actor Don Cheadle has decided that PR work is more lucrative than straight up movie acting.
http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2005/Jan/28-131991.html
http://www.royce.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=21702
http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2005/Jan/28-761674.html

Friday, January 28, 2005 Posted: 0348 GMT (1148 HKT)
Royce, chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa of the International Relations Committee, is demanding the U.S. government push harder for U.N. sanctions against the Sudanese government.
"This is not a problem for Africans alone to solve. The whole world must be engaged," he said.
Accompanying the mission was actor Don Cheadle, nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the film "Hotel Rwanda."
Cheadle was invited to go on the trip by Royce after the two discussed how the film, which is set amid the genocide in Rwanda 10 years ago, might help end the crisis in Darfur.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/01/27/sudan.us/

Ed Royce does not appear to hold the wishes of the bereaved in high regard. Nor does anyone who went on that trip appear to see the presence of the REAL Paul Rusesabagina,
the hotel manager who sheltered more than 1,200 people during the Rwandan genocide a decade ago, (Cheadle portrays him in the movie)
as more than a prop.