As I sent out my mini-rant last night, I got an interesting response from one of my friends. Don’t forget Darfur, she said. Wow. I did forget. I hadn’t mentioned Darfur in months. This is the largest humanitarian disaster in years. We know that it is going on. The president hasn’t mentioned Darfur in over a year. According to the White House web site, the last time that the president mentioned Darfur was in 2004 and that was simply a press release.
Today 2 op-ed’s in the NY Times really address the lack of leadership in the foreign policy arena from the Bush Administration. Let’s assume that the Bush Administration does not really want to promote democracy outside of standing around with world leaders and smiling. Darfur would have been an excellent place to promote democracy. Nicholas Kristof writes - “No genocide has ever been publicly chronicled so extensively as this one. We have satellite images of the burned villages, and detailed reports from groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Aid workers interact daily with the two million displaced people, and we can watch as Sudan spreads instability into neighboring countries.” And Frank Rich wrote - “AS American foreign policy lies in ruins from Pyongyang to Baghdad to Beirut, its epitaph is already being written in Washington. Last week’s Time cover, “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy,” lays out the conventional wisdom: the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war, upended by chaos in Iraq and the nuclear intransigence of North Korea and Iran, is now officially kaput. In its stead, a sadder but more patient White House, under the sway of Condi Rice, is embracing the fine art of multilateral diplomacy and dumping the “bring ’em on” gun-slinging that got the world into this jam.”
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Tags: Domestic Issues, Foreign Affairs, Mess O'Potamia (Iraq/Iran/Israel/Palestine), North Korea by ecthompson
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Dallas Morning News is reporting that Keith Davis starting free safety for the Cowboys was shot while driving on I-635 in Dallas. He was hit twice. He was able to pull the car over to the side of the road. A friend in the car was able to drive him to the hospital. The friend was uninjured. 
