Blair To Sudan: Where's George?
Via Rick Heller @ Centerfield:
Blair draws up plans to send troops to Sudan
One excellent point that Rick makes, and I'll second:
The fact that the United States is not discussing intervening in Sudan, where actual genocide seems to be occurring, gives lie to the claim that our intervention in Iraq was in any significant part to protect human rights, where the mass murder of Kurds and Shiites had occurred in the past, but was not actively ongoing when we invaded.
Bush had reportedly read an early Samantha Power account on Rwanda (prior to writing "A Problem From Hell"), scribbling in the margins "Not on my watch." Emphasis being that Clinton had sat on the sidelines during Rwanda. Yet, watching incidents such as that in Sudan unfold are an amazingly bipartisan disappointment. Even watching my own icon, Lieberman, on a Sunday talkie ... he wasn't convinced we needed to go to Sudan. It was maddeningly infuriating for one central reason: for the million or so lives at stake, it would take about 1-2,000 troops to enforce security needed in Sudan. The precise number varies, and I may be off by a few. I'm not a military planner, obviously. But the point being that the number of troops needed to prevent genocide of this massive scale is so hideously minor that it begs the question of why we're so reluctant to call genocide ... well ... GENOCIDE.