A MERE PROPOSITION

FOR SAVING THE WORLD OF REFUGEES IN DARFUR FROM BEING A BURDEN TO THEIR COUNTRY OR HUMANITY, AND FOR REMOVING THEM FROM HISTORY TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC

IT IS a tragedy to those who pay attention to the global community or read articles on international issues to see the blurbs roll down the page of how 2.7 million displaced are running to neighboring countries such as Chad and how women and children are being raped to take the place of their brothers’, husbands’, and sons’ most probable deaths and how 400,000 are dead even so. These viewers, instead of being able to continue their lives carelessly, are forced to recognize what is happening outside their own microcosm, which really is pointless because only the politicians can create laws to make something change.

I believe that all can agree that this phenomenal figure of men, women, and children in the hearts, or on the minds, or at the consciousness of their fellow human beings is in the present dreadful state of the nation an immense additional grievance; and, therefore, he/she who has the ability to discover a reasonable, economical, and uncomplicated means of relieving these wretches from the consciousness of well off people, would be worthy of having a monument of his/her image erected at the center world as preserver of our ignorance.

However, my intention is far-off from being limited to just taking care of the Darfurians; its scope is much greater, and shall require the entire global community’s awareness of these people to be compromised.

As to my role, having processed my ideas for four years upon this chief issue, and wisely scaled the prodigious plans of other people, always I found them vilely at error in the solution. It is fact that America has dropped the A-Bomb twice in the twentieth century on our past enemy the Japanese, but the consequences of those actions still carry on today and will never be forgotten. Unless…

My scheme has yet another part in that it will prevent those arbitrary objections, along with that ghastly page in the history books from reoccurring that reads, “Alas! America’s solution to end WWII was to kill thousands of innocent babes.”

I am assured by our top scientists that the drug Propranolol, typically used for high blood pressure, yields yet another groundbreaking treatment that completes my plan fully.

Without further ado, I shall now humbly present my proposition, which I hope will not be designated to disparity.
I have been assured by our very own Little Boy and Fat Man that a few of these babies can entirely wipe out a nation; no longer would America be cut by the double edge sword of being called blind for doing nothing or the big bully for actually taking action. But this alone would not work. We would then need to implement the second part of my plan, Propranolol, the “miracle drug,” that can virtually erase Darfur from our memories.

Thus I humbly recommend it to international contemplation that of the one hundred and ninety two countries that are UN members, only America, Great Britain, France, and Germany actually drop the bombs on Sudan (especially the region of Darfur), Chad, and only a few more neighboring countries because to overkill is unnecessary and just mean (I would have included Iraq as a bomber too, but as it turns out they did not have any weapons of mass destruction in their possession after all). No fretting of nuclear Holocaust or mass murder or genocide conquered by genocide will be of consequence because as long as all the countries’ governments enforce its citizens to take Propranolol without exception, then no one will remember that this region of Africa ever existed. And even if a few petty people are missed, these individuals would quickly be dismissed because the majority of people will not even know what Darfur even was.

Critics may see the use of Propranolol as an ethical issue, but I ask who wants to remember? Who wants to have to care for these helpless people at the cost of overwhelming criticism for not dealing with the more important issues of the economy, the wars in the Middle East, and Swine Flu? Who wants to remember the unbearable truth that after the Holocaust, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda we have yet again failed to uphold Never Again? Who wants to remember the maimed and malnourished children looking at us with their bulging brown eyes or the devastated mothers’ shrieks of pain that cry out exactly how she lost her will to live?

No one.

And so the benefits are obvious. First, that battle-zone region in Africa will be solved for there will be nothing left and therefore nothing to worry about.

Secondly, with the erasure of the genocide in Darfur from our memories, we can focus more clearly at the real problems at hand, like Swine Flu.

Thirdly, because nothing will be left in Sudan, we can use that area as a universal weapons of mass destruction testing site (UWMDTS), so as to no longer be bothered by the question of who possesses nuclear weapons; it will be out in the open.
Fourthly, we can finally truly live by “ignorance is bliss.” We will not have to be burdened by another genocide we failed to stop. No more nightmares or guilty consciences.

Many other advantages might be enumerated. This event will dodge history because no one will be able to recall a Sudan, a Darfur, or the genocide that took place. By this, we have a new chance to possibly make things right in this post WWII era after only five or so tries as opposed to six or so. Never again can mean something again because the next time signs of genocide begin to reveal itself, we will have had time to solve our other problems and therefore be able to have a full effort at ceasing another genocide because we will be better off.

My mind can think of not a single opposition that will possibly be raised against this proposition, unless it is made aware of that, by some anomaly, the Propranolol does not serve its purpose, and that we will remember what we have done to stop the genocide. If such a miscalculation should occur, then all I can say is this: At least it will be over. It is not just to allow such destruction to occur in Darfur now, from the ravished homes to the massacred families at the hands of the Janjaweed. At least with the bombings, the pain and suffering will be vanquished in a single day, not drawn out over years as it has already been. Besides, which guilt is worse, that of not doing enough and watching the endless suffering? Or acting in a Machiavellian manner to end the genocide in the most beneficial way? Therefore let no human being talk to me of alternatives: of having more awareness programs to expose the truth of Darfur: of raising money to help the displaced families have enough to at least sustain themselves: of sending more humanitarian aid with the backing of the United Nations: of sending troops to fight the Janjaweed and protect the victims and end the war: of condemning the Sudanese government as guilty of genocide and punishing them for what they have done: of having an international movement to intervene instead of relying solely on America to take the first big step: of providing resources through organizations such as the Heifer Organization in an attempt to replenish the country of livestock and a means of agriculture: of requiring elementary schools, high schools, and colleges to teach its students of what is happening, so that no Freshman will ask ever ask what is Darfur?: of at least somehow rescuing the children from the gruesome reality that killed their family and currently kills their childhood spirit: of creating more innovations like the solar cooker to establish jobs and a better means for the adult survivors so that they can provide for themselves, their family, and their community: of having more articles, books, political cartoons, movies, and documentaries on the genocide in Darfur to shock the world into action: of bringing survivors to America to tell their story of survival and why this needs to be prioritized. Lastly, of realizing that even if we do not feel the imperativeness of upholding our promise of never again in memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust alone, then to at least realize that we are all human beings who for the sake of humanity know that genocide must be stopped.

Therefore I reiterate, let no human being talk to me of these and the like alternatives, until he/she hath at least some honest motivation to bring these dead words to life.

I admit, with all sincerity, that I possess no other motive than the public good of the world, having only the desire to relieve our burden of needing to intervene, to concentrate on the real issues, to have no more fears of who has what, and to live in bliss. Anyway, this proposition, my very words, will not be remembered for they will be glued to the bombs in pieces, and destroyed on the day they drop which will be appropriately be named “Piece Day” in just a slight honor of my unselfish brilliance.