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19 Oct 2009 04:58 pm

Passing On Darfur

Barron YoungSmith previews the administration's long-delayed Sudan Policy Review that Obama was supposed to deliver personally:

It will be announced by Hillary Clinton, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and the U.S. envoy to Sudan, General Scott Gration. Obama does not plan to attend, most likely because the president's political handlers don't want to further associate him with a policy that has been an ongoing public-relations disaster. That's a shame, because it signals to the world and the government of Sudan that Obama himself is not particularly engaged on the issue, and it's a sad contrast to the deeply concerned speeches Obama gave in front of Save Darfur groups before he became president. (He even co-wrote an introduction to Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast.)

One hopes that in analyzing the trap of Afghanistan, the president has now tempered some of his idealism with reality. There is only so much America can do.

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