McCain on Sudan

My opinion is that America would be much better off if our President's last name were McCain instead of Bush. My favorite McCain trait is candor (he tells you what he thinks unambiguously and respectfully).

He wrote an editorial in the Washington Post on June 23 which I missed until now. His warning seems all-the-more prescient given recent events in Sudan. It begins thus:

Imagine that we could rerun the events that occurred in Rwanda 10 years ago. With the certain knowledge of horrific events to come, would the world's great nations again stand idle as 800,000 human beings faced slaughter? If the recent expressions of grief and regret from world leaders are any indication, the answer is no -- this time things would be very different.

Yet, in 2004, just as in 1994, the international community is on the verge of making a tragic mistake. Mass human destruction is unfolding today in Sudan, with the potential to bring a death toll even higher than that in Rwanda.

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