Feeling Despair and Paralysis

Why do you feel despair and paralysis with Darfur and CONGO?

Editorial - A Policy for Preventing Genocide - NYTimes.com: "Darfur, Congo, Rwanda and, before that, Bosnia. It is hard to contemplate man’s capacity for inhumanity without feeling despair and paralysis. The world usually pays attention only after the killing has spun out of control, when ethnic, religious and political divides are rubbed so raw that the furies are infinitely harder to calm. By that point, the United States and others are faced with the agonizing choice of either intervening militarily or allowing the killing to go on."