One I Missed ...
I missed this from a while back, caught a quote in another article thet led me to go a-Googling, and let me say for the record, Colin Powell is dead wrong on this one ....
MR. RUSSERT: You said that in Sudan we are witnessing genocide. In Bosnia, when we witnessed genocide, we sent in American troops. Is there a possibility we would send American troops as part of an international force into Sudan to stop this bloodshed?SEC'Y POWELL: I don't see that as a possibility at this time. In fact, there's not a need to. I don't think it's the right solution, and no European troops are prepared to go in. The African Union has sent in a small number of troops, but they've indicated a willingness to send in a much larger number of troops, in the thousands. And so the strategy we're following now is to press the Sudanese very hard in the Security Council. And as you may have noticed, we're the only ones who have declared it as genocide. None of the other major nations of the world have done so. None of the international organizations have done so. We called it the way we believe it is, based on the work that we did.
And so we'll be pressing in the Security Council for a strong resolution, and in that resolution there will be support for an expanded African Union presence, in the form of monitors and protection forces for those monitors, so they can have a better understanding of what's happening throughout the Darfur region and contain and constrain the activities of these Janjaweed militias by just being in the area and watching what's going on. We hope the Sudanese government will respond.
It is our desire to work with the Sudanese government to complete the important work we have done in the North-South agreement, and to bring Darfur under control so that we can help the Sudanese people to a better life, to peace after so many years of war, north-south and east-west. And so our effort is not to destroy the Sudanese government or to cause them difficulty, but to help them to bring this situation under control so they can get on a path of peace and off this path of conflict.
Not a need to? What the hell did he see in Sudan?
So let's see here ... engage in genocide and you don't have to worry about any strenuous US efforts to stop it (Sudan) ... develop a nuclear weapon, possibly even test it for all we know, and we'll send a handful of your neighbors to talk to you (North Korea) ... talk openly of developing nukes in the Middle East, and we'll think about the issue long and hard (Iran) ... revert to a dictatorship, and well ... nothing yet (Russia). Such boldness and decisiveness is to be packaged as a virtue?