OurPledge

Writing in The Huffington Post last week, Mark Leon Goldberg, a senior correspondent at The American Prospect, stressed the importance of UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s very recent characterization of Darfur as “an ongoing genocide” [my emphasis]. Of course, these are just words — this is just a phrase uttered at a press availability — on the part of Rice. But this is definitely a good start: it’s important that Obama’s team take every opportunity to frame the genocide in Sudan accurately and with great urgency.