http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-56232 OneFreeKorea » SOTU Speech Fails to Mention North Korea Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:54:06 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-56232 [...] I heard “Korea,” and I think I probably heard ”North” somewhere, but I did not hear “North Korea.”  It’s nice that President Bush stands against genocide in Sudan.  Seriously.  It would be better than “nice” if Bush would do something meaningful to stop it.  It’s too bad, of course, that he chose to end his term as an abettor of a genocidal regime in North Korea.  North Korea was even left out of his catch-all list of repressive nations abroad.  I remember hearing Belarus, Zimbabwe, and Burma, but only the latter of those is even in North Korea’s league.  Charles Krauthammer thinks this means that Bush has given up on nuclear non-proliferation.  Brit Hume also noticed that Bush mentioned Zimbabwe and Burma, but not North Korea. [...] [...] I heard “Korea,” and I think I probably heard ”North” somewhere, but I did not hear “North Korea.”  It’s nice that President Bush stands against genocide in Sudan.  Seriously.  It would be better than “nice” if Bush would do something meaningful to stop it.  It’s too bad, of course, that he chose to end his term as an abettor of a genocidal regime in North Korea.  North Korea was even left out of his catch-all list of repressive nations abroad.  I remember hearing Belarus, Zimbabwe, and Burma, but only the latter of those is even in North Korea’s league.  Charles Krauthammer thinks this means that Bush has given up on nuclear non-proliferation.  Brit Hume also noticed that Bush mentioned Zimbabwe and Burma, but not North Korea. [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51399 Nuke’s News and Views » Blog Archive » Bumper Sticker Bozos Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:13:03 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51399 [...] Other good reading: OneFreeKorea–Beyond the Drum Circle. Stopping Genocide in the Real world – I’ll add a fourth common point about the feel-gooders: their condemnation of genocide is seldom directed at oppressors who successfully cast themselves as enemies of America. Hating America has become a license to commit genocide, because when a tyrant acts as ventriloquist for his nation’s hatred of America, it must be our fault for failing to “understand” and “engage” with the murderers. That may be why you will seldom hear any Hollywood actor, liberal politician, or anchorman breathe the words, “Camp 22.” If you’re new to this site, you’ve probably never heard of the place, although in its cruelty and scale it’s easily comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen. Fifty years from now, schoolchildren will make solemn visits to memorials at Camp 22, and grad students will write theses about it. Yet today, while Camp 22’s next victims can still be saved, it’s another unpleasant topic we choose not to bring up for the sake of a diplomatic dance whose end result is mournfully predictable. The angst of those who should be talking about Camp 22 is wasted instead on places that aren’t remotely comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen, though too many would squander their credibility and betray their true motives by suggesting otherwise. (h/t n2l) [...] [...] Other good reading: OneFreeKorea–Beyond the Drum Circle. Stopping Genocide in the Real world – I’ll add a fourth common point about the feel-gooders: their condemnation of genocide is seldom directed at oppressors who successfully cast themselves as enemies of America. Hating America has become a license to commit genocide, because when a tyrant acts as ventriloquist for his nation’s hatred of America, it must be our fault for failing to “understand” and “engage” with the murderers. That may be why you will seldom hear any Hollywood actor, liberal politician, or anchorman breathe the words, “Camp 22.” If you’re new to this site, you’ve probably never heard of the place, although in its cruelty and scale it’s easily comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen. Fifty years from now, schoolchildren will make solemn visits to memorials at Camp 22, and grad students will write theses about it. Yet today, while Camp 22’s next victims can still be saved, it’s another unpleasant topic we choose not to bring up for the sake of a diplomatic dance whose end result is mournfully predictable. The angst of those who should be talking about Camp 22 is wasted instead on places that aren’t remotely comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen, though too many would squander their credibility and betray their true motives by suggesting otherwise. (h/t n2l) [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51334 Human Security Review » Beyond the Drum Circle Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:10:18 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51334 [...] One Free Korea has an interesting post on “preventing genocide in the real world”. It is not so much a policy article as a condemnation of the popular celebrity “feel good” responses to genocide: These feel-good responses have several common points. First, all are the stuff of drum circles – concerts, solemn words, and toothless sanctions, all apparently based on the presumption that the Janjaweed are gravely concerned about George Clooney’s disapproval. Second, they cease to be feel-good and are abandoned when any cost is attached to them. Third, the sanctimony almost always comes too late to save anyone. [...] [...] One Free Korea has an interesting post on “preventing genocide in the real world”. It is not so much a policy article as a condemnation of the popular celebrity “feel good” responses to genocide: These feel-good responses have several common points. First, all are the stuff of drum circles – concerts, solemn words, and toothless sanctions, all apparently based on the presumption that the Janjaweed are gravely concerned about George Clooney’s disapproval. Second, they cease to be feel-good and are abandoned when any cost is attached to them. Third, the sanctimony almost always comes too late to save anyone. [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51184 Janus Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:48:09 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51184 Superb Superb

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51173 Bumper Sticker Bozos « Nuke’s News and Views Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:36:40 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51173 [...] Other good reading: OneFreeKorea–Beyond the Drum Circle. Stopping Genocide in the Real world – I’ll add a fourth common point about the feel-gooders: their condemnation of genocide is seldom directed at oppressors who successfully cast themselves as enemies of America. Hating America has become a license to commit genocide, because when a tyrant acts as ventriloquist for his nation’s hatred of America, it must be our fault for failing to “understand” and “engage” with the murderers. That may be why you will seldom hear any Hollywood actor, liberal politician, or anchorman breathe the words, “Camp 22.” If you’re new to this site, you’ve probably never heard of the place, although in its cruelty and scale it’s easily comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen. Fifty years from now, schoolchildren will make solemn visits to memorials at Camp 22, and grad students will write theses about it. Yet today, while Camp 22’s next victims can still be saved, it’s another unpleasant topic we choose not to bring up for the sake of a diplomatic dance whose end result is mournfully predictable. The angst of those who should be talking about Camp 22 is wasted instead on places that aren’t remotely comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen, though too many would squander their credibility and betray their true motives by suggesting otherwise.  (h/t n2l) [...] [...] Other good reading: OneFreeKorea–Beyond the Drum Circle. Stopping Genocide in the Real world – I’ll add a fourth common point about the feel-gooders: their condemnation of genocide is seldom directed at oppressors who successfully cast themselves as enemies of America. Hating America has become a license to commit genocide, because when a tyrant acts as ventriloquist for his nation’s hatred of America, it must be our fault for failing to “understand” and “engage” with the murderers. That may be why you will seldom hear any Hollywood actor, liberal politician, or anchorman breathe the words, “Camp 22.” If you’re new to this site, you’ve probably never heard of the place, although in its cruelty and scale it’s easily comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen. Fifty years from now, schoolchildren will make solemn visits to memorials at Camp 22, and grad students will write theses about it. Yet today, while Camp 22’s next victims can still be saved, it’s another unpleasant topic we choose not to bring up for the sake of a diplomatic dance whose end result is mournfully predictable. The angst of those who should be talking about Camp 22 is wasted instead on places that aren’t remotely comparable to Tuol Sleng or Mauthausen, though too many would squander their credibility and betray their true motives by suggesting otherwise.  (h/t n2l) [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51157 Must Read at OFK: Genocide in Our Time at DPRK Studies Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:50:32 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51157 [...] Beyond the Drum Circle: Stopping Genocide in the Real World [...] [...] Beyond the Drum Circle: Stopping Genocide in the Real World [...]

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51149 Jim Hoft Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:01:52 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51149 Thank you, Joshua. That was brilliant. May we have the courage to battle the genocides of our day. Thank you, Joshua.
That was brilliant. May we have the courage to battle the genocides of our day.

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51135 Rand Millar Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:58:34 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51135 Must "second" the prior comment. Thank you Joshua Stanton for incisively differentiating timely and real (inevitably risk- and cost-laden) responses to genocide from the "feel-good" activism that passes for a response in popular culture and politics. Must “second” the prior comment. Thank you Joshua Stanton for incisively differentiating timely and real (inevitably risk- and cost-laden) responses to genocide from the “feel-good” activism that passes for a response in popular culture and politics.

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51100 Gerry Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:45:33 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51100 Outstanding article and one that provokes serious thought. Outstanding article and one that provokes serious thought.

]]> http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/comment-page-1/#comment-51077 North Korea Blog » Beyond the Drum Circle: Stopping Genocide in the Real World Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:01:30 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/08/04/beyond-the-drum-circle-stopping-genocide-in-the-real-world/#comment-51077 [...] Read more of this story… [...] [...] Read more of this story… [...]

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