Sadly, the deaths of over 500,000 people, the rapes of countless women and girls and the displacement of over 2.5 million Darfurians has not moved the U.S. toward decisive action against the Sudanese government (I guess oil is thicker than blood). However, there may be something that’s more in the U.S. own interests that will force its hand on Sudan.

You know the whole “global war on terror” thing that Bush keeps telling us we’re fighting. In particular, he states that al-Qaeda is our number one threat. Well, a judge has ruled that Sudan is liable in the 2000 attack of the U.S.S. Cole in which 17 sailors were killed.

Specifically, the judge said that “(t)here is substantial evidence in this case presented by the expert testimony that the government of Sudan induced the particular bombing of the Cole by virtue of prior actions of the government of Sudan.” Did you read what I read? The GOVERNMENT of Sudan was involved in an al-Qaeda attack against a U.S. Navy vessel. Remember, Sudan was a hotbed for al-Qaeda activity and, at one time, was home to Osama bin Laden.

So, what does it say that we go to war against a country that posed not real threat to us but, we act diplomatically with a country whose government was complicit in an attack on a military vessel and the deaths of U.S. soldiers?

If genocide doesn’t move the U.S., maybe this will.

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