Many of you know Glenn Reynolds, who writes the highly thoughtful and influential http://Instapundit.com blog. Glenn has written about Darfur a number of times, and had the following to say about Sudan today. Thanks Glenn!
Excerpt:
JAMES MOORE has more on Darfur and the Sudan,
and suggests that the U.S. and U.K. may be contemplating military
action. He adds: ” I personally support declaring the situation a
genocide and taking immediate military action.”
Based on what I know, so do I. He adds:
Finally, for those who are focused on the weaknesses
of the UN system and the oil for food scandal–the scandal of the UN
response to this genocide seems to me to be equally damning. Sudan sits
on the human rights council, Kofi Annan says nice words but appears not
willing to either use his bully pulpit to rally world opinion, nor to
use his formal powers to take on the Arab, African, and Russian
governments that are said to be blocking stronger action in the
Security Council.
As those who know me realize, I am certainly not a
unilateralist. On the other hand, this case shows why unilaterial
action is sometimes the only way to deal with a problem while it still
can be meaningfully addressed.
Indeed.
UPDATE: War Nerd has a column on Darfur, where things are bad enough to penetrate even his hardboiled cynicism.
