An illuminating piece on the mass killing and displacement of people in the Darfur region of Sudan. I tend to believe that the problems in Africa are on such a scale and frequency (AIDS, starvation, genocide, etc,) as to be unsolvable by other nations' intervention.
I don't like being a pessimist about the UN's (the world's nations) ability to solve 'humanitarian crises' but they are , in fact, ineffective as are the member nations:
"In the case of Kosovo, intervention to roll back ethnic terror ultimately worked: NATO's 78-day bombing campaign forced Milosevic's paramilitaries to withdraw. And yet neither the United Nations Security Council nor any other body has contemplated such an act in Sudan. Last month, the council failed to pass a resolution criticizing Sudan. The Bush administration wanted one, but neither China, nor Pakistan and Algeria, the two Muslim countries now serving on the Security Council, did. Note: China's opposition is curious)
It seems the world cannot move beyond the Arab-Christian confrontation. We see it so often.
The recent action of the UN suggests they continue to be terribly ineffective and worthy of little respect concerning large scale African problems. Meanwhile, the UN continues under the cloud of corruption, including Annan himself, in the Iraq Oil for Food program. Sad.
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