Saving Darfur
I agree with Peter Beinart. As surprised as I am to say that, he gets that the West needs to intervene in Darfur:
There's only one way to save Darfur: tell Sudan it can either accept the U.N. force or face war against the world's most powerful military alliance. Though the U.N. can't fight its way into Darfur, NATO can. If it does, al-Bashir could end up following Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's Charles Taylor to a war-crimes trial at the Hague. Confronted with that prospect, al-Bashir might conclude that a U.N. peacekeeping force isn't so bad.
The West has said "Never Again" how many times? It's the Days of Awe, so I will forgive every single person who said it to make themselves feel better, but certainly didn't mean it to apply to black Muslims being killed by Arabs. But it's time to put our lives where our mouths are. Genocide is happening; it's happening on our watch, and we are the last ones who can stop it.
If we choose not to stop it, how are we any better than those who stood by during the Holocaust? In fact, aren't we worse, for having seen it happen in our own lives?
