Kent’s Recommended Watch:
Terry George:
Hotel Rwanda
Finally got to watch Hotel Rwanda last night; an excellent movie about a disgusting situation. As I was watching one of the mini-documentaries that came with the
But it’s not surprising. Nobody reported on—or cared about—the Holocaust either. American and British troops didn’t even know it was going on until they discovered the camps. Our commanders knew, and said nothing. Our homelands even turned Jewish refugees away.
We have all these Holocaust memorials scattered throughout the world, movies like Schindler’s List, and videotapes of survivor stories. We teach these things to our kids in their history classes so that “you can make sure nothing like this ever happens again.” And then it happens again. In Rwanda. Currently in the Sudan. What’s the freakin’ point? Why show kids the films of trenches full of emaciated corpses? They’ve seen more horrific stuff in video games. It doesn’t faze them. It won’t unless it’s live. When you put a video screen between people and reality, it disconnects the two. Why don’t people realize this?
About the Sudan—Congress even passed a resolution denouncing the genocide in that country. Yet where are our troops? Afghanistan and Iraq. Granted, those countries needed liberating; but so do other countries whose leaders are smart enough to not attack the United States (or the president’s dad) first. But I guess the war on terror only applies to terrorists who annoy us personally.
I still recommend the movie. Watch it. But the apathy of this country might greatly annoy you.