Realism in Darfur

Consider the horrors of peace.
(from Slate.com) By Christopher Hitchens, Posted Monday, Nov. 7, 2005, at 6:05 PM ET

It looks as if the realists have won the day in the matter of Darfur.
Or, to phrase it in another way, it looks as if the ethnic cleansers of
that province have made good use of the “negotiation” and “mediation”
period to complete their self- appointed task. As my friend Johann Hari
put it recently in the London Independent: “At last, some good news
from Darfur: the genocide in western Sudan is nearly over. There’s only
one problem—it’s drawing to an end only because there are no black
people left to cleanse or kill.” …

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