While I hate to distract from important pro-choice activities--it's always strange walking around downtown D.C. and seeing people with weirdly placed pro-life stickers (seriously, behind your knee?)--there's been another bad development in the Darfur situation: The U.S. is doing nothing to contest Sudan from becoming the President of the African Union; that is, being put in charge of mainly AU peacekeeping force that tasked with stopping Sudan from committing genocide. And the U.S. Administration's response?

It is up to AU members to decide on a new chairman, deputy spokesman Tom Casey said...

...In defending the hands-off position of the U.S. in the upcoming election, Casey said, "The AU is an organization of sovereign states, just like the European Union, just like others. It's for them to make these decisions."

Sweet, disengagement. Right now, the situation in Sudan is so bad it's almost impossible to get any information from there, and neighboring Chad is becoming a center of violence as well. Without the token peace-keeping force, there would no information--or action--at all. Which is just how the Khartoum government, and apparently, our own, like it. If you disagree, you can write a morally worthwhile but probably futile letter to Condi Rice through the Genocide Intervention Network.

Unrelated sidenote: Now that I'm back in the States, I'm back to blogging--hi, everybody!

-- Tim