Clooney’s premise seems to be: if you find genocide, you are principally responsible for stopping it—and now—no matter what the obstacles. We all want genocide in Darfur to stop, and we should work for effective means to bring that about, but Clooney’s partisan approach to genocide in Darfur is a dangerous game. By heaping most of the blame on Bush for the intractability of the Darfur crisis—when he clearly deserves credit—Clooney deflects attention and opprobrium from Bashir and those who do have the power to stop it immediately.
Clooney’s antics will cause this and every future administration to think twice about ever again calling ongoing genocide by its rightful name. He risks betraying the beleaguered people of Darfur and setting a tragic precedent in the process. It is a foolish display by Clooney, but an abundance of wisdom has never been the fault of this self-righteous Hollywood crusader.
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