Today, however, things would be different. "By God," he said to himself, "if no one else will act, then I must take the lead."

Johnny called his family together and they stood on the steps of the House and he spoke to them in a determined voice: "Someone must do something about the poor people in Darfur. I suggest that we raise a great cry and make our neighbours follow us in this righteous cause."..

He would go to the next meeting of the village council and make a fine speech. He had done it many times before, like the time he read a paper he wrote all by himself, "The Responsibility to Protect." It was his idea -- everyone in the club, according to Johnny, had a right and a duty to go into anyone's house and put an end to domestic disturbances.

Well, the paper was a great moral success at home. His old father pointed to it at every town meeting. The Canucks couldn't do these things, of course, and certainly not if the violent people in the distraught house wouldn't let them in or if his family thought Uncle Sam was leading...

Well, now Darfur was back in the news, and so Johnny Canuck gathered his family around him on the House on the hill and proclaimed that someone should do something and that if they would provide the blood and the treasure, then he would lead them, so long, of course, as no one got hurt.