Darfur delays

Sam Rosenfeld brings us up-to-date on the on-going foot-dragging by Europe and the UN regarding the situation in Sudan. He includes a pretty strong indictment of Europe's failure of leadership written by none other than that commie europhile, Howard Dean.

It is remarkable that a decade or so after all civilized people everywhere said "never again" following the horrors Rwanda, we're seeing a tragic replay, one that may even be institutionalized by the Sudanese government.

Human Rights Watch is also concerned with the United Nations "Plan of Action" whereby the Sudanese government would create "safe areas" in which displaced persons would be concentrated. The plan calls for these "safe areas" to be protected by Sudanese police and security forces.

However, the Sudanese government is now integrating members of the government-supported Janjaweed militias into police forces, and such militias have been responsible for atrocities in Darfur.