SUDANESE GENOCIDE - Let them eat cake!

Fruit of indifference ... & where it grows!

"Can they find the mechanism to do it?" a subhead over a WaPo opinion column concerning the world's will to do something about Darfurian genocide now that they've agreed it must be stopped. (HT Sudan: The Passion)

"The problem with most discussions of political will is that we spend more time lamenting its absence than organizing its presence," Mark Schneider, senior vice president of the International Crisis Group, said last year.

This is it for me ... the international community's seemingly infinite will to talk ad nauseum but make little progress in affecting any results. The UN is the most egregious example of that!

In just the past few month's we've seen international cooperation with elections in Afganistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and disaster relief unparalleled in history. During the same time frame we've seen global cooperation in saying goodbye to papa John Paul II, in the election and consecration of a new pope; as well as in cedar, orange, rose, and yellow people's revolutions, along with two of the most internationally watched national elections ever ... and yet we can't stop a rag-tag bunch of towelhead bullies who kill women and children.

It all makes no sense unless national consciences have been seared and the national priorities of every nation on earth is so screwed up no amount of persuasion will get the global mucky-mucks do anything!

Increasingly, advocates of humanitarian intervention are discussing not only the need for political will to take such action, but the need to have a way to act. Without effective mechanisms, any number of resolutions will be rendered meaningless. And the absence of practical means also makes it harder to marshal the political will.

RESOURCES:

• NGOs, UN, US State Department, African press
• Daily BBC summary articles, photos (some audio)
• Scotsman - best UK coverage
• Sudan Tribune - best non-mainstream, accurate local view
• Eric Reeves - one of the best independent analysis of the situation
• ReliefWeb - a lot of stories on Sudan; more press releases
• Feedster Sudan feed (intl.) - find new sources, find each other (blogs & RSS)

These are not Christian organizations.

RELATED UPDATE: Mark Cofffey at Decision '08 agonizes (as we all should) over the deplorable conditions in North Korea ... the two situations (Darfur & North Korea) ought to wake us up but don't hold your breath waiting for the UN.

What's that Kofi, have I got a fiddle? What's that funny looking gold circle in that horrible hair of yours? A crown of Ceasar? Hmmm!

RELATED UPDATE 2: AllThings2All has The Darfur Collection up ... don't neglect my Darfur post of 5/14.