The U.N. will only act if invited by the murderers, so the U.S. should press harder for punitive sanctions.
THE UNITED STATES IS APPARENTLY serious about sending international troops into Darfur — so much so that on Thursday, Congress approved $60 million to help pay for a United Nations peacekeeping mission there. Too bad the mission itself doesn't exist and, without more top-level diplomatic involvement, may never materialize.
Last month's peace agreement between the Sudanese government in Khartoum and one of the rebel factions in the Darfur region was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy. But it's looking more and more like the latest in a series of empty gestures. Read more >>>
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