Darfur: Staging Failure

The useless United Nations, and whole continent incapable of helping itself. Sad. Very sad. The sham of "peace keeping" actions in Darfur is one of the great shames of the modern era. Blame Bush? Blame the U.S. That wouldn't be fair. We should blame everybody, particularly the Africans who seem bent on not helping themselves. Head of U.N. peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno said the mission was in doubt because of obstacles from Khartoum, and rights groups urged the world body to sanction Sudanese leaders if they did not comply. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has refused non-African troops, delayed allocating land to the force in Darfur, demanded the right to disable the mission's communications during "security operations" and refused night flights. "The new hybrid peacekeeping force for Darfur is being set up to fail," said Human Rights Watch along with 34 non-governmental organizations. "The Security Council has responded to this defiance with hand-wringing but nothing more, said Steve Crawshaw, head of U.N. advocacy at Human Rights Watch. "What will it take to make the Security Council act on Darfur?" FULL ARTICLE at Reuters...