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| CITIZENS FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS | Christian Science Monitor | ||
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How Involved Should the U.S. Be in Relieving the Darfur Crisis? Your Jan. 23 editorial, "The long road out of Darfur," lays out the complex and dire situation in the region of Sudan where nearly 400,000 people have died. While Secretary of State Rice has been intimately involved recently in building support for an expanded role for the UN in Darfur, President Bush has remained silent on the subject. Next Tuesday night, during his State of the Union address, the president has a golden opportunity to break his silence. His speech will be nearly 17 months to the day after his administration labeled the ongoing atrocities in Darfur "genocide," and it is time for the president to speak with moral clarity on this issue to the American public and our friends and allies around the globe. Darfur is one of those unique issues that lies at the nexus of good policy and good politics. Those pushing for the president to take action include his political base - religious conservatives - but also constituency groups that tend to support more liberal causes: religious progressives and African- Americans. If the president were to stand up in front of Congress and the American
people and articulate a clear moral vision of action on Darfur, he could
rise above the political partisanship that grips our nation's capital and
promote a real solution to a global problem. |
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