Charlie Rose

lindarden07  03/21/2012 11:11 AM Report

By the end of the day, it is all the matters about who gets the oil. People in Sudan don't fight for no reason as do the rest of the world.

BoseEinstein  03/18/2012 04:57 PM Report

One must put aside his sound byte love of President Obama, for what he is doing for South Sudan takes courage! I have great respect for Mr.Clooney.

ShalomFreedman  03/18/2012 10:27 AM Report

Courageous and commendable as Clooney and Prendergast are they raise the question of where U.S. policy is now, and where it has been while the violence of the Arab north against the black South persists? There are no doubt political restraints against U.S intervention but the the U.S. has many ways of pressuring regimes even the corrupt Sudanese one. So far as I know it is not even raising its voice.As for the spoiler role played by the Chinese here and with Iran and in other places the suggestion that they be induced to turn their back on that role may well be naive.

ShalomFreedman  03/18/2012 10:13 AM Report

Why does it take two private citizens, however commendable and courageous to move the U.S. to raise its voice against the criminal government in Sudan? The murderous actions of the Arabs from the North against the black tribes of the South have been known in the West for years.

Gelles  03/18/2012 06:31 AM Report

As Sharks pointed out, George Clooney raised attention to crimes in progress as we read the news. "George--we gotta love ya and thank you and Godspeed on a solution. Perhaps many others at the table will give a voice to the voiceless, huh Charles?", was Sharks comment to the CR Show and its audience.

It is now days later. Our attention has been on St. Patrick's Day and crimes after WW I in Ireland's demand for freedom in the World made safe for democracy at that time.

Democracy demanded of Britain then and in Africa now. Progress has been slow, and an American President has been timid -- not Britain and its Parliament.

It is no wonder American labor has been given the back of our hand. African human beings have been left alone to die because we lack resolve and a proper sense of proportion.

There is no force for evil in China, African-Arabia, or the oil markets of the world that can stand for a single second against the force America has been given to do God's work on Earth. There is nothing romantic about Cooley call to you and me to see the right and wrong of things up close and in our face. I don't know about Sharks, but I would have America power their overnight. Those children would be our children and the enemies of our human race would be good or dead. What the hell did that guy learn at Punahou School in Hawaii, when they studied history? What have the Irish, British, Jewish, American and Africans learned in the 2oth Century that makes Hillary and Barack so damn timid and cowardly when issues are clear and they have overwhelming might under their command.

Hitler, Stalin and their totalitarian forces are no more -- ladies and gentlemen.

..... The persistence of timidity, evil or both at the top of democratic governance is in our own mirror -- not somewhere else.

Gelles  03/17/2012 02:56 AM Report

The tragedies in Africa, similar to those earlier outside Africa, which featured suffering, murder and genocide of one type or size or another, are extremely hard to prevent or deal with after the fact. Considering the Jew killing in WW II by Germany and its allies, especially the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his people, REMant's. "... the Zionists have been in the removal business with the connivance of both the US and Russians since the end of WWII.", is insult added to murder by a comment from a moron.

Yet, these tragedies and insults are frequent, almost common, in world history. And why and how George Clooney has taken up the cause to minimize their re-currence is also not obvious to people, like myself, who would like to see Utopian outcomes wherever possible. Tragedies, after the fact, when opposed by Clooney manage to punish him for trying to do a right thing. The guilty escape all the time; the do-gooder suffers vicariously, as the guilty continue to escape. Nature is profoundly cruel in the real world.

REMant blames a lot of our human guilt on the inflationary effect of more money. He is about as ignorant a person as one can encounter. Deflationary effects are far worse than the kind of inflation he has experienced. Yet the sadness of the African innocents caught up in its Arabian nightmares is so great, these economic asides should not be mentioned. Except, of course, for the fact that Abundance when it comes, abundance of necessaries and more money to buy them, will be a major part of the answers Clooney and othersw are seeking.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/16/2012 04:41 PM Report

Wow Charlie!

On your show and then the next morning arrested. How cutting edge can you be?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/george-clooney-arrested-sudanese-embassy

"Stop raping them and stop starving them," he said. "That's all that we ask."

George--we gotta love ya and thank you and Godspeed on a solution.

Perhaps many others at the table will give a voice to the voiceless, huh Charles?

REMant  03/16/2012 11:27 AM Report

I don't doubt the difficulties of the situation, nor the good intentions of these fellows or even their analysis, but I wonder who is using whom, when they are invited to sit next to the president at a state dinner the next day. It's bad enough that both the previous president and this one want to "reform" the Middle East, but they want to reform all of Africa, too. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command) Yet no one wants to acknowledge the role we have played in creating the scramble for resources in these regions, and certainly not that it was ostensibly in order to help our poor little brown friends in the first place. On top of that Bashir knows full well the West has never been serious no matter the rhetoric, because of his "anti-terror" stance. And likely embargoes will not work in any of these cases, because as we are finding with Iran, they are easily circumvented. If you really want to help ppl, then stop printing money and exploiting their resources. The Chinese are at least paying them what they are worth and trying to aid development. This is just the same as the drug problem with South and Central America, and the same sort of gunboat diplomacy we practiced there a century ago. Bad as Kony and the rest may be, they are nowhere near as bad as we are. And I might add in the hypocrisy category that the Zionists have been in the removal business with the connivance of both the US and Russians since the end of WWII.