Hero & villain: Save Darfur/David Rubenstein

David Rubenstein
Worldwide Director
Save Darfur Coalition

Dear David,

FINALLY you are taking some risks. Thank God! Today's piece shows some courage on your part and begins to be commensurate with the enormous moral responsibility you assume as the head of an organization that claims the title: "Save Darfur." "Rubenstein told Bush he was disappointed by the "lack of concerted and sustained action" to end the tragedy. "It is time for effective American leadership to end this genocide now," he added."

BUT DAVID, "American Leadership" you say, THAT MEANS YOU DAVID! HOW CAN YOU ASK BUSH TO PUT HIMSELF ON THE LINE IF YOU DO NOT!?!?!? What price are you paying David? What price are you leading others to pay? The answer so far David is that you have been leading us to pay NOTHING/NO RISK/NO SACRIFICE!

I pray that your recent shows of some courage is just the beginning. David, please LEAD US. I'LL FOLLOW!

Full article:

U.S. says China sends "mixed signals" on Darfur
Mon Feb 5, 2007 3:59pm ET

A 7,500-strong African Union peacekeeping mission has struggled to maintain a ceasefire in Darfur. Khartoum rejected a U.N. takeover of the force and has instead given loose approval for a U.N.-AU hybrid force.

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met U.S. actor Don Cheadle, an activist on Darfur, to discuss what was happening there.

McCormack declined to provide any details of Rice's meeting with the actor, whose roles include one in a film about the Rwandan genocide, except to say the two had a good discussion.

Cheadle and other personalities have been putting pressure on the Bush administration to do more to stop the carnage in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have been killed in the past four years and about 2.5 million driven from their homes.

The Save Darfur Coalition, one of the most vocal advocacy groups for Darfur, wrote to President George W. Bush on Monday, urging him to take specific actions to help what the president himself calls genocide.
"It's not an exaggeration to fear that the degradation of the humanitarian situation in Darfur may soon result in a catastrophe dwarfing all that has gone before," said Save Darfur Coalition executive director David Rubenstein.

Rubenstein told Bush he was disappointed by the "lack of concerted and sustained action" to end the tragedy. "It is time for effective American leadership to end this genocide now," he added.