[Recreational Reader]

It is disturbing, and has been going on for 20 years as the article mentioned, not just the two years the conflict has been brought to the Darfur region.

(Ironically, the article calls this government sponsored genocide of the arab government in the north against the people in the south "a 20-year civil war" but calls this newest front in Darfur an "Islamic government launched an ethnic-cleansing campaign against blacks". Its the same northern arab conquest against the blacks in the south, just expanded these last two years to the western Darfur region!)

I remember reading many an article about this very thing happening while Clinton was bombing Kosovo to smithereens. Articles pointed out the irony of allowing this massive genocide and yet taking on the Serbia cause so enthusiastically.

[Recreational Reader]

I think more should be done. This is terrible. But one more comment, you mentioned:

"I can't say that the Bush administration has done much more than did Clinton in his day."

You may be right saying not much more. Though not as much as I'd like to see, we do have observers there now, and the U.S. has aided many southern Sudanese refugees in corning to the U.S. since Bush's administration. What Bill Clinton did: ZIP!!!

I agree with you, we should do more though. Observers will slow it down from as an aggressive a genocide, and we have and will relocate many refugees here, but that doesn't solve the problem.

[marron]

I did notice that when they were killing african christians in the far south, no one could be roused from slumber. It was only when they began attacking african muslims in the Darfur that it became politically possible to do even what little they are doing.

Still, as you say, little is better than nothing.

It is fitting symbolism that security for the camps is provided by Rwandan troops. But unless we start offering material help in terms of arms and training, the ethnic cleansing, slaughter, and expulsions will continue. Remember that it was not the UN that ended genocide in Rwanda, it was armed Rwandans that ended it.