I agree completely with Jim Moore on the ongoing genocide in Sudan. It is long past time for the United States to stop twiddling its thumbs waiting for the United Nations and act unilaterally again to stop genocide in Sudan.
A bigger question is exactly what the hell would have to happen for the United Nations to actually do something about genocided. It sat on the sidelines while hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered. It sat on the sidelines again in Yugoslavia while mass graves and institutionalized rape were being used, and now it is standing by while Sudanese Arabs slaughter Sudanese Blacks.
What would it take for the UN to actually intervene to stop genocide? Does a country have to actually put out a sign saying “Gas Chambers Here”?
Not surprisingly, again China, France and Russia are the main obstacles to getting a resolution passed in the Security Council (France’s position seems to be that the only time it wants to send troops anywhere is to defend those responsible for genocide, as it did in Rwanda).