Bomb Sudan #
March 25th, 2008 | In Worth Considering
Mark Helprin says that that’s the solution to the crisis in Darfur.
Which would the regime in Sudan prefer? To be annihilated, or to discontinue its campaign of mass murder in Darfur? Given Sudan’s record, very few nations would be willing to come to its aid with other than a pro forma whimper, and given the geography and the air and naval balance, no nation could. Though many a repressive dictatorship would protest, and Sudan’s patron, China, might determine to speed up the formation of the blue-water navy it is already building, little else would change except for the better.
Also of note, a damning rebuttal from Mark Goldberg.