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Why should President Obama end the genocide in Darfur?

While the moral argument here is all he really needs to consider, there’s also something to be said on the political side of things. If the President really wants to regain international trust and instantiate a new era of human rights enforcement, then he has every reason to stop the genocide. As Save Darfur Coalition Executive Director Jerry Fowler writes in a recent Op-Ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

“Obama is facing innumerable pressing issues. But a sustained effort to end the first genocide of the 21st century in his first months in office would be a dramatic but feasible way to realize his vision of renewing America’s international standing and leadership. And he would have the support of a broad and growing constituency of conscience, comprising Americans from all walks of life, ages, and political, religious and ethnic backgrounds.”