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05/29/2004 Archived Entry: "Bush Points the Way"

Posted by steve @ 04:05 PM EST [Link]

ANOTHER STORY NO ONE TOLD YOU ABOUT: George W. Bush scored a massive victory this week. Did you hear about it? No, it wasn't in Iraq. This week the Bush administration helped both sides in the Sudanese war come to a peace accord, ending a conflict that's last for two decades.

Yeah, I didn't hear about it either.

Nicholas Kristof states:

If the peace holds, hundreds of thousands of lives will be saved, millions of refugees will return home, and a region of Africa may be revived.

But there's a larger lesson here as well: messy African wars are not insoluble, and Western pressure can help save the day. So it's all the more shameful that the world is failing to exert pressure on Sudan to halt genocide in its Darfur region. Darfur is unaffected by the new peace accords.

Read on. (NYT, Free registration required)