It's easy to whine on Facebook and create sympathetic posters about the two hundred or so young girls who were kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram. People love to whine on Facebook ... because then it means they don't have to actually do anything.
(Ed: what do you do?)
I wrote. You read it. I did something. Maybe nothing comes of it but that much definitely did.
(Ed: what's the difference between that and Facebook?)
Telling other do-nothings about your dismay is hardly likely to result in a solution. Evidence: it never has. Blogs changed the Internet, Facebook just made it fat.
The reason there is no hope for those girls is that you're dealing with some of the most deadly killers on the planet and they can easily make a Hong Kong street gang look like a pack of Cub Scouts learning how to make a pup tent. An older example is the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya in which white settlers were hacked to bits in the early 50's. You have a country ripped to hell by colonialism along with a huge measure of white/black conflict and the killing isn't going to stop because someone gets weepy over some schoolgirls. The problem is far bigger than that.
You don't have the faintest idea if Boko Haram actually represents the good guys yet they operate by brutal means. You don't have the faintest idea if the existing Nigerian government is actually worse than Boko Haram. I don't either. But no-one's going to be able to help those girls or any of their relatives without at least knowing that much.
(Ed: what do you do?)
I wrote. You read it. I did something. Maybe nothing comes of it but that much definitely did.
(Ed: what's the difference between that and Facebook?)
Telling other do-nothings about your dismay is hardly likely to result in a solution. Evidence: it never has. Blogs changed the Internet, Facebook just made it fat.
The reason there is no hope for those girls is that you're dealing with some of the most deadly killers on the planet and they can easily make a Hong Kong street gang look like a pack of Cub Scouts learning how to make a pup tent. An older example is the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya in which white settlers were hacked to bits in the early 50's. You have a country ripped to hell by colonialism along with a huge measure of white/black conflict and the killing isn't going to stop because someone gets weepy over some schoolgirls. The problem is far bigger than that.
You don't have the faintest idea if Boko Haram actually represents the good guys yet they operate by brutal means. You don't have the faintest idea if the existing Nigerian government is actually worse than Boko Haram. I don't either. But no-one's going to be able to help those girls or any of their relatives without at least knowing that much.
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