I for one, have posted only a few times to any of the Iraqi threads.

Currently, I am working for aid programs in Haiti and South Africa. (not counting local charities, of course) I am also the director of a non-profit in the history field.

We all have to pick and choose what issues we will give our attention to. It is not just the U.S. who is ignoring the issue in Sudan. Most other first world nations are doing so, I believe. Same thing as the genocide that happened in Rawanda where the U.N. pullout actually enabled that to happen.

The first world nations are quietly hoping that the poor around the world will just simply die. AIDS is doing that, but it also helps to have a few small wars here and there.

Remember the Black Death well, not literally) it was partially responsible for the Renaissance. That's probably what first world nations are hoping for again.