The Foreign Policy Association has published a lengthy piece that I have been working on for quite a while, “Never Again,” Again: The Darfur Crisis. It is also available in .pdf, with footnotes, here.
The opening paragraph:
The pattern is relentless, bleak, frustrating, and odiously predictable. The leadership of Sudan and its murderous minions engage in brazen and cynical acts of murder and foment chaos, either directly or by proxy. The rest of the world responds tepidly if it responds at all. Sudan oversteps, the world criticizes, hinting of ramifications to come. Sudan backs off just long enough for the goldfish-length attention span of the western powers to turn their attentions elsewhere. And then the self-preserving thugs in Khartoum return almost immediately to their cruel and rapacious ways.
[Crossposted at dcat.]