Here’s what happens when celebrity culture meets reality, as demonstrated in one of the funniest–saddest?–paragraphs I’ve read in a while. It is taken from a story in the Forward reporting  the launch of a new organization focusing on raising “public awareness about Iran’s nuclear ambitions”:

The group is being set up as a registered 501c3 charity that presents itself as “a non-partisan, broad-based coalition” that will comprise individuals and organizations from “diverse ethnicities, faith communities, political and social affiliations,” according to a mission statement posted on its Web site, which is under development.

And what’s the logic behind this timely initiative?

The promoters of the group, which is called United Against Nuclear Iran, hope to replicate the Save Darfur Coalition, which has brought together liberals and hawks as well as Jewish and Christian groups, to advocate in favor of the war-ravaged Sudanese region.

So now we know: success means raising public awareness. The failure to stop genocide–or Iran–is a mere detail.