September 2, 2009
Essential Reading
This op-ed by Dave Eggers and John Prendergast. As the Sudan policy is being finalized and reviewed by top officials it is essential that the point of view of those who actually know and care about the situation in Sudan be heard in as many places as possible.
Of striking importance is that this point of view is the same point of view of Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Susan Rice before they were inaugurated. This is one place where Obama has not done what he promised to do on the campaign trail nor has any other member of his administration. It is essential that this issue be heard now as the Sudan policy is being finalized. This is not just about Sudan, Prendergast hastens to remind us:
“this isn’t just a debate about policy towards one country. President Obama, like President Bush before him, has called Darfur an ongoing genocide. So the policy that will be unveiled soon on Sudan will have global ramifications, because it will be the president’s first chance to articulate his policy on responding to genocide.”
