Looking the Sudan Genocide In the Face

While we have been joking about the U.N.'s cowardly refusal to call the situation in Sudan's Darfur region "genocide" (because then they would HAVE to act, under the rules of the U.N. Charter), we Americans have not been quick to push for our own government to do something. Well, Nicolas Kristoff is doing something to urge Americans (and other readers of the NY Times to action. He has published a series of 4 classified photos taken from the genocide area, including a child, two men, and the skeleton of a tortured victim. It is time for the horror to stir us to action. This is a minature repeat of the Holocaust, and we are standing by and doing nothing. Click through and take a look (the pictures are horrible, but PG rated). But don't stop there. It is time top write Congress and/or the White House to let them know that we can no longer idly stand by.