Wall Street Journal
Obama has flipped on Darfur:will now offer incentives to the dictator
"I am deeply concerned by reports that the Bush Administration is negotiating a normalization of relations with the Government of Sudan. . . . This reckless and cynical initiative would reward a regime in Khartoum that has a record of failing to live up to its commitments."
—Senator Barack Obama,April 2008
We found this not-so-ancient statement on the Obama campaign’s Web site,under a picture of the candidate and the quote,"I’m asking you to believe."On Monday,the Obama Administration took its own first step toward normalizing relations with Khartoum,promising a "menu of incentives and disincentives"for a government the U.S. has repeatedly accused of genocide. Please don’t call it "reckless and cynical."
What’s on that menu isn’t clear,since its contents are only described in what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls a "classified annex to our strategy."The Administration only promises that it won’t make any concessions to Khartoum until it sees evidence of better behavior. Two State Department officials told Foreign Policy magazine that the annex consists of benchmarks "on whether or not progress is being made."Tough stuff.
To the Old Lady In Texas…bravo. You hit it right on the head. This guy (Obama) is a menace. I am disgusted that the great powers of the world are once again sitting around while hundreds of thousands of people are dying right before our eyes. I remember Rwanda. I remember it well. So should every American. We have an obligation to stop genocide. It is an obligation BECAUSE we can stop it. The people of Darfur look to us for help,and our dear leader sits around with his nose upturned,looking down at all of us,deciding where to take his wife on their next date night. I'm ashamed we were so bamboozled as to elect this idiot.