Fox news article here.

I don't know a lot about politics and war, but can't we do something to help? A mother is forced to watch while her daughters are boiled alive and eaten? Sex slaves? Someone make it stop.

I will never understand how people can do that to another person. Amazingly disturbing and sad and tragic and repulsive and.................

Maybe the Red Cross or UN has some kind of fund.

How some people can treat others so grossly never ceases to amaze me. Seems that people in this world who are weak and defenseless are always overcome by some slimeball group who is stronger.

This is just another example of how impotent the UN is. Only superior force will stop the killing there, IMO, but if the US acted how many people around the world and here at home would scream that the US has no right to "impose" our values or form of government there? And we'd have to "go alone" with only a few allies. Similar atrocities happened in Iraq, with hundreds of thousands murdered and tortured.

I pray that such awful crap stops but I doubt it will unless/until superior force is brought to bear.

I don't know how much attention you'e been paying to events over there, but the UN "Peacekeepers' behavior in that area hasn't been a whole lot better.

You would think after what happened in Rwanda ten years ago that people would be much more willing to help!

I'm confused: How is this a matter of people being unwilling to help?

What I meant was that after what happened in Rwanda I would think that the USA and Europe would be much more willing to put an end to this sort of thing.

I guess there is not enough oil there....

Oprah did a show awhile back about the women of the Congo, it made me sick to my stomach to hear their stories. Lisa Ling (formerly on The View) actually went to the Congo and interviewed the women. I could not imagine living day to day in such fear that you are going to be attacked and raped in your own home. I think I would have no will to live!

And the position of the UN is.....????

I saw that episode of Oprah.* Oprah was alluding (I can't remember if she came right out and said it) to no help going to these places because it Africa and most Africans are black. Normally, I hate when the race card is played, but think she actually has a point with this one. What is the "official" reason for no intervention by the rest of the world?





* DISCLAIMER - I do not watch Oprah. My wife happened to beat me to the living room tv and she had it on.

I don't buy it. If that (race) is the only reason, why aren't guys like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakan, the NAACP, and the congressional black caucus screaming (literally) bloody murder over this? Why are they not leading a charge on every venue they can get on to get this situation addressed?

Because there's no money in it for them?