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Via Phil Carter, I spot this New Yorker article by Samantha Power on the situation in Sudan.

A couple of observations to add to my already stated position that we have no excuse to not be able to place a few thousand troops there to stop the genocide going on ... one, its an odd feeling when you read Power's writing - she's got a great style, but you just wish there wasn't enough for her to write about on this topic. Secondly, she also does what I think is a powerful job of presenting this situation in light of the current war on terror. Namely, that the cause of the Darfur genocide is to "Arabize" Sudan and create a situation ripe for another failed state that can harbor the next bin Laden (as Sudan indeed harbored the original once upon a time).

The immediate question is when this will be called what it is: genocide. To do so triggers actions mandated by the Genocide Convention (aka - Proxmire's Legacy) and nobody likes to be locked into an automatic response ... hence the game of semantics. But I'll close this with an echo of Carter's take:

As the world's only superpower, I believe we owe certain duties to global society ? one of which is to use our powers for that which is just and right. In the international arena, there are few causes more worthy than stopping genocide, wherever it may occur. That we have invested so much blood and treasure in Iraq, and so little by comparison in Sudan, says something about our values and priorities. I think we ought to reconsider that decision, and take a more aggressive stance towards genocide in Sudan and elsewhere.