Darfur - what's the plan?

Next week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will pressure Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to make defininitive decisions regarding the makeup of the U.N-A.U. peacekeeping forces in Darfur. The development of a real plan to implement peace and security in Darfur has been at a standstill for months, thanks to the inability of the Sudanese government and the U.N. to come to agreement on troop size, etc.

In the meantime, thousands of innocents are dying.

This week, the genocide continues - 5,000 people were forced out of their villages and into refugee camps in West Darfur because of a slew of bombings in the region.

What is the U.N. doing? What is the U.S. up to? Ho hum, well Ban Ki-moon does have his big meeting with the Sudanese president next week, and he is in talks with China's U.N Ambassador Wang Guangya to put some pressure (probably economic) on the Sudanese government.
President Bush, our big leader against "the war on terror" even mentioned the need to keep the situation in Darfur in the forefront of everyone's minds.

Alright, fearless leaders, think all you want. People are dying while you muse about peacekeeping initiatives in Darfur. Lawrence Rossin's (International Coordinator of the Save Darfur Coalition) response to Bush's acknowledgement of the Darfur genocide is "We raise consciousness. Your job is to do something." Rossin is right. Everyone knows there is a holocaust in Darfur. President Bush - next time you might want to have a plan to go along with such an acknowledgement. It's time to act!