what keeps me up at night.

so i was watching vids on youtube after a friend called me and woke me up from what was to be the earliest night this year, of course i was scanning the news and politics section, especially focused in africa in northern uganda and sudan. it bothered me that people throw around words like "genocide" and use it to describe a horrifying but two sided civil war. one comment that really bothered me was one about how we are fighting a war on terr'r, and if it were truely about oil we have completely neglected a country that has rich in oil (sudan). it just sucks that people don't know what they are talking about. in brief research anyone can tell you that the US produces twice as much oil as sudan, and we use about 3 times what we make each day. on that note we also export more than sudan does. iraq is in a league all its own producing in one day what sudan does in about a week. comparing the two in that way just isn't meaningful... sure sudan has oil... but iraq has a hell of a lot more.
but anyway the point is that there is a lack of education. more and more people are becoming aware of the "fire burning in africa" but there are so many problems,(darfur, the lra, and not to mention aids) and the history of each is so complex it seems almost impossible to find one single way to extinguish it.
and looking at it that way is in fact quite ridiculous. what needs to happen first is education about specific issues, that is detailed enough to be useful, pick a topic that interests you, be it women's rights, disease, poverty, or mortal combat, research it. and it alone, then try to come up with a solution. or better yet educate more people about what specifically concerns you. brainstorm, bounce ideas off of people. together people can accomplish things that would be impossible for indviduals.
for me, i have found my issue. education. there are thousands of kids that are displaced, that have no home, no family, that may even have no hope in uganda. my hope for my future came through education. helping underprivileged kids become doctors,and lawyers, would give them a hope for the future and create more doctors and lawyers of course! maybe one day one of my students will find a cure for aids, or cancer, or war, or find a renewable type of feul that won't create ridiculous and inappropriately named wars that kill more soldiers than any terrorist attack on us soil (including 9/11) has. maybe. but who knows. maybe i am just in need of sleep, and that didn't make sense to anyone but me.