http://www.boston.com/news/world/afr...t_lacks_funds/

The United States is the largest donor by far, giving $188 million to the emergency food program. Norway, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, and Belgium donated a total of $5.5 million and Canada gave $3.9 million.

The only Muslim nation contributing to the emergency feeding program is Libya, with a donation of $4.5 million. The rest of the money came from a special UN ''humanitarian fund" and from individual and corporate donors.

Beyond the pledges from individual member-states, the 25-nation European Union has allocated $60 million to programs in Sudan, but none to the emergency feeding program.

Samantha Power, an author and long-time Darfur campaigner, said in a telephone interview from Washington: ''What is really extraordinary is the degree to which Darfur has not captured the European imagination . . . It's astounding just how passive the press and the grass-roots groups have been" in Europe and Canada.

UN officials said wealthy nations, with the singular exception of the United States, seem weary of donating money to the cause of Darfuris caught in the relentless ethnic war.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

The result:

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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.

Freaking amazing!

Obviously Europe doesn't put it's money where it's mouth is!!

They not only expect the United States to FUND all the world's problems....they expect us to solve them militarily as well.

Well, I say "Phooey on that."

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This is disgusting - the EU nations need to get off their collective arses and make good on their pledges, and especially to pledge and support the emergency food program.

Good to see that the US is to the fore in pledges (and that little Ireland is doing its share)...

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One of my favorite in this was the UN saying it was curtailing their humanitarian people on the ground because .."The situation is too dangerous"..golly I wonder why?

In 2004 the United States declared the events in Darfur as Genocide. Took the issue to the UN in the realization that having defined it as Genocide the UShad obligatesditself under the UN protocols of Geneocide to act. IF the body acted. IOW it went down the road everyone demands it go down.
The body?..its still busy defining words in regards to the "unfortunate events" occuring in the Darfur region....

if a country can not survive on it's own, why the hell does it exist? what do they do there then? make babies? why should anyone be suporting any of these poor nations i do not understand: people should leave and that's it,

i think it's all to play good, like they spend billions (TRILLIONS) of dollars on wars, then they give a few million to feed the hugry just to look good.

Well, maybe because it is ultimately beneficial for MEDC's to have all countries at the first world level, so as to have better trading partners.

How about the fact that the reason some countries suffer from natural disasters, famines or wars is not always their fault?

Or, what about simple human compassion. Ya know, empathy and whatnot?

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Without regime change or a large military presence, all the aid in the world won't do any good.

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Darfur is not a country its the western most region of the Sudan..It produces..well produced enough to feed the local populcace.

Today the story is different.

Its hard to raise a crop when some guy on a horse comes galloping through it with an ak-47 and kills you.

If you don't get rid of that guy with the AK47, people can't support themselves and aid can't get through.

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