Genocide in Darfur Continues Unabated:

While testosterone driven tribalists gear up for the only thing that they seem capable of occupying their time with in Afghanistan and the U. S. Congress pounds its chest over Bush's imbecilic war over oil and the dollar in Iraq, genocide continues unabated in Darfur.

In his state of the union address a few weeks ago, Bush promised to "awaken the conscience of the world to save the people of Darfur," but like most everything else spoken from the bully pulpit that too was so much hot air.

The poor black Africans who are being systematically murdered at the behest of Khartoum have no control over the Sudanese oil fields, so they are expendable. And the genocide keeps the thugs busy. Otherwise they might turn on their own leaders.

Will the west do anything that might endanger the flow of oil? Not likely. China gets a major part of its oil from Sudan, and right now the west is courting China, as the editors of The New Republic point out.