Each of us sits in a comfortable, warm place, with a television screen or a laptop in front of us, watching the caravans of displaced people in Sudan and the smoke rising from fires ignited by the barbarity of a human being thirsty for dominance and power. What is our stance? We act as if it does not concern us, for we are sitting safely in our homes. But what did Angelina Jolie say about such a cold and indifferent attitude? *“The fire that breaks out in your neighbor’s house will reach you unless you move to help extinguish it before it gets to you.”* Pure wisdom.
So what have we done to extinguish the fire of discord in wounded Sudan? Nothing. We merely watched, as we did with Gaza, and before that Beirut and Sarajevo. How long will this passivity continue—this passivity that allows Trump to meddle in what does not concern him, imposing on the people of Sudan a peace shaped by American standards? And how I detest *Pax Americana*. It would have been more fitting for us to act before it was too late; we have lost many of our countries because of our rigidity, our laziness, and our love of worldly comfort. We do not learn from experiences nor from lessons. What happened in Sudan is the responsibility of all of us: they did not succeed in avoiding the war, and we did nothing to build a local solution that would guarantee a minimum level of consensus.
Will this indifferent attitude of ours persist in even more dangerous files? God knows.
