Matt Stoller is spot on…
I went to the rally against genocide today sponsored by Save Darfur. My favorite speaker was Tom Lantos, though I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Barack Obama, George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi, and of course, Manute Bol. One sign I saw struck me as particularly compelling. It said “Out of Iraq, Into Darfur!” From a humanitarian perspective, that’s a pretty tough equation to argue against. In Darfur, you have the most extreme form of terrorism imaginable – the elimination of a people wholesale. And Bush hasn’t really done much of anything about it, despite a bipartisan consensus in Congress.
This is shameful. We can stop this genocide, and we choose not to.