Comments on: The Devil Came on Horseback

By: dan mcquillan

dan mcquillan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:01:12 +0000

I discovered this post while writing Can Social Technology help prevent Genocide?. It’s a fascinating coincidence for me, because I’ve drawn so much from your writings on the cultural nature of the social web (and I’m positing online culture as critical in the relationship between the internet & genocide…). Cheers to you, if you ever get to read such a late comment

By: dan mcquillan

dan mcquillan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:59:49 +0000

By: GoodToBeWithYou

GoodToBeWithYou — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:40:37 +0000

I see this blog’s first post was June 9, 1997, which means that June 9, 2007 would have been it’s tenth birthday.

Call me sentimental, but happy retrospective tenth birthday for two days in the past’s future ( if you catch my drift, this being a comment on a June 7 2007 past ). The French probably have a tense for it.

If anyone reads this, apart from the bit bucket, pls shout hip hooray here. And good to talk with you in Brisbane.
Danny

By: Asaji

Asaji — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:23:04 +0000

Hi,I remembered this while i was reading “The Devil Came on Horseback”

*If you see hoof prints, think horses-not zebras.*
The Pragmatic Programmer, p96, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:27:12 +0000

I saw Devil at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival a few weeks ago, and it is an incredible film, important not only in its revelations about the crisis in Darfur, but as a meditation on what it means to be a witness.

But I think that what was most painful to me is that despite our activism, very little is being done to stop what’s happening in Darfur.

By: Lawrence Krubner

Lawrence Krubner — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:52:04 +0000

“At one point, he can no longer sit by and watch and so he returns home to the States to rally American politicians. He figures that if they just knew, they would be in there to stop it. Or if the American people just knew, they would make their government do something.”

Speaking personally, I’d say that once upon a time I would have supported military action by the United States to help end the tragedy in the Sudan. But Iraq has convinced me that such action is folly. And now I don’t know what I should do, or what the country should do. Send a strongly worded letter? Perhaps the President can say something stern to the leader of Sudan? Or should we offer economic aid in exchange for a cease fire? I’ve really no idea. I suspect quite a few people are the same spot I’m in. Iraq has bankrupted our imaginations. It’s hard to think of what the possible positive actions are, given the circumstances.

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:49:27 +0000

The shame is that there is even sometimes regression backwards, as was evidenced when I saw Biden at a hearing back when I was in D.C…. the regression was on the part of the adminstration and it was demonstrated when Biden had to eat their envoy alive to make him admit (again, for the record) that there was in fact a genocide occurring. It was really fun to watch Biden in full foreign relations glory, but really sad given the apparent necessity of his pulling teeth on the issue.

transcriptage: http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=272339&&

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:49:26 +0000

The shame is that there is even sometimes regression backwards, as was evidenced when I saw Biden at a hearing back when I was in D.C…. the regression was on the part of the administration and it was demonstrated when Biden had to eat their envoy alive to make him admit (again, for the record) that there was in fact a genocide occurring. It was really fun to watch Biden in full foreign relations glory, but really sad given the apparent necessity of his pulling teeth on the issue.

transcriptage: http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=272339&&