I don't compliment the Bush administration often, because frankly I don't like the way they behave. On Darfur, though, the US is taking a lead role and we ought to. Apparently, we have to as well.
The case of Darfur highlights what is wrong with the UN. At a time when the US is a little bit busy, and at a time when the international community claims to hold the secret to multilateralism, they stand around with their hands in their pockets as one million people are starving to death!
If France expects to represent multi-lateralism and compassionate foreign policy then where is she? If Germany wants to use its armies to build up nations, rather than tearing them down, then where is she now?
Annan short on funds and backs
What Sudan needs is French, and German, and South African special forces rolling back the rag-tag bunch of degenerates known as the Janjaweed and pronto. You cannot lead by being absent in a moral crisis and you cannot wait to act when people are this desperate.
Bush's rush to war in Iraq was a mistake, since the country was quarantined and the inspectors were doing their job. In this case, though, swift action is required. It is time for the multi-lateralists among the UN to stand up and be counted. This type of conflict is a duty-call to your raison d'être is it not?
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