Wisdom of small children: my five year old's solution to the Sudan crisis

[0rganism]

Last night, my son watched the news with my wife and me. They had Christine Amanpour reporting from Darfur, about the problems the refugees faced from starvation and murdering militias. During the commercial break, I turned to my son and asked, "How would you solve this problem?"

His immediate answer: "We should get the people out of there."

My question: "Where should we put them?"

He thinks for a few seconds, then his answer: "Washington."

Without any prompting at all, he's capable of seeing the obvious solution that eludes our statesmen. Instead of trying to bring food and medicine to keep people alive in a war-torn wasteland, bring the people out of the wasteland to live where the food and medicine already are.

Sam for President!

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. I Vote for Sam!

He's already more intelligent than the idiot-in-chief. Amazing!

[0rganism]

3. The hamster in your sig image is smarter than dubya, that's a given

Unfortunately, Sam also appears to be smarter than Madeline Albright and Colin Powell and Kofi Anan and centuries-worth of "the best and the brightest". And I bet you'd get similar answers from a lot of kids his age.

[NMDemDist2]

2. smart kid n/t

[gottaB]

4. reminds me of a comment I read on a bbc message board

"My advice to the wretched lot in Darfur: Run as far as you can from the crisis area. Run!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3879681.stm

It would mean admitting that a way of life has been destroyed. Probably realistic.