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This is what she wrote:

“From the (less-ignorant) Writer:

For all the flamers who said I was ignorant, you have me dead to rights. My face flushed when Pitt said “you’re smarter than that” because I knew I should have known the answer. And I didn’t.

However, my question was: Was the civil war, the one detailed in the movie we had just watched, that he executive produced, still going on? And, as it turns out, the answer is, No. That specific war has ended, with conflict diminished to the point that (I later discovered) some Lost Boys have been able to visit their homelands. That had been the original intent of my question to Pitt (although, at that moment, I was sufficiently embarassed to not ask him).

And the last sentence of my post, were it better written, would have communicated its intent: One war has ended only to have others take its place. I never believed (or suggested) that all war in Africa, or in the Sudan, had ended — or that the conflicts currently taking place were in any way less significant. Or that Pitt was, as one poster said, an “idiot.”

Maybe Pitt misunderstood me and thought I was asking the status of all Sudanese wars. Or maybe he didn’t realize the exact status of the North-South war. I don’t know and it doesn’t matter — he was still better informed than I.

Finally, a great article here about tensions surrounding the celebration of the peace accord’s second anniversary:
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-01-10-voa47.cfm

Posted by: Dana Harris | January 10, 2007 at 08:50 PM”
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