Brad Pitt makes a valid point....

Earlier today on excite before I decided it was time for me to take a long vacation from there, a friend posted comparing Aruba with Sudan. He was pointing out the obvious that we waste no resources to find a missing girl there but the hundreds of teenage girls dying in the Sudan don't seem to make us even get up off the couch.

Those that read here regularly know I talk about Darfur often, and the lack of support from both our government and the UN.

Some of the comments Brad made or will make during his prime time interview:

"Listen, we who were born in America have to understand, we hit the lottery by growing up here, by being born here," he said.

He said the costs involved in making a real impact in the impoverished regions of Africa are minimal.

"A girl's education is $16 — the price of a CD … we're not talking about going to the people — everyone forking out of their pocket," he said. "We're talking about arousing our government to say … we have the potential to end poverty in our time … What is more exciting than that?"

Pitt said he was frustrated by the fact that his personal life has been the subject of a media frenzy while the humanitarian crisis in Africa has received relatively little attention.

"I can't get out of the press. These people can't get in the press. So let's redirect the attention a little bit," says Pitt. "It drives me mental seeing what I've seen and knowing that it doesn't show up in our news every day. I mean literally, thousands of people died today!"

While he was in Africa, an ABC News search found 896 articles about Pitt. His Google count is now up to 2.7 million entries.

"It's a strange focus, isn't it?" he asked. "That my relationships or relationship mishaps takes precedent over something like that [the situation in Africa] … I understand it's about entertainment, but man, it's misguided a bit, isn't it?"

He marveled at the prices that celebrity publications paid for pictures of him with Jolie and her son in Africa — estimated at $500,000 to $750,000.

"It's an amazing fact, the bounty that's on my head and the lengths that these people go to get these shots and the amount of money that they're paying for these shots," he said. "I can't help but think what that money could have gone to. Hell, I would have set up the damn pictures myself."

When asked why people should listen to him, or other celebrities, just because they're famous, he said: "I don't know that we should … I don't believe people should listen to me. I'm hoping the images … will speak for themselves."

I agree with him that alot of times our focus is misguided and we are lucky to be here, despite our political squabbling we could be doing alot more to make the world a better place. With what we have spent so far on Iraq we could have made a huge difference in Africa and in the end saved alot more people from death. If we could have found a way to avoid having to go to war? What a difference it could have been....and even with the cost of the war? We can still do alot more not only ourselves but to encourage other countries to do the right thing......