- GI-NET President Mark Hanis stumps U.S. UN Ambassador Susan Rice.
- A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed on Sudan sheds some light:
“In the man-bites-dog story of the year, the U.N. last week took the Obama Administration to task over its lax efforts to enforce the [Darfur] arms embargo, while praising the Bush Administration. “In contrast to that leadership of 2004 and 2005, the United States appears to have now joined the group of influential states who sit by quietly and do nothing to ensure that sanctions protect Darfurians,” Enrico Carisch, who was the top U.N. investigator of violations of the arms embargo until October, said in written testimony before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa.”
- In a Huffington Post Op-Ed, John Prendergast urges President Obama to live up to his Nobel promises. Here’s the relevant section from Obama’s Oslo address last week:
“Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure — and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.”
Really, then? Where are the strong sanctions against the Sudanese government, then? What pressure is being imposed to stop genocide?
