{"id":1128,"date":"2008-03-26T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T00:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2008\/03\/justice-for-sudan.html"},"modified":"2008-03-26T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T00:02:35","slug":"justice-for-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2008\/03\/justice-for-sudan.html","title":{"rendered":"Justice for Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/25\/opinion\/25helprin.html?ref=opinion\">Mark Helprin in The New York Times,<\/a> a way to end the genocide in the Sudan&#8230; yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DESPITE almost 1.5 million bombing sorties flown against Germany during the Second World War, the United States and Britain failed for lack of trying to destroy the system of transport that fed the gas chambers and crematoria. Thirty-five years later, America did not, despite its unquestioned naval supremacy, protect the Vietnamese boat people. That we and our two allies capable of projecting power, France and Britain, are now distracted and divided by the wars in the Middle East is terribly unfortunate for the people of Darfur&#8230;.<br \/>\nThe genocide there is thus an unattended stepchild left to well-meaning groups and individuals who further sap the possibility of decisive action by directing attention to delicate measures of relief and equally fragile diplomacy. Blankets are necessary, but they will not stop the razing of villages. As Sudan brazenly defies, if not the world\u2019s will, then, its wishes, and the death toll closes upon half a million, the pity is that the people of Darfur can in fact be saved. In concert with our allies or entirely alone, we have the military potential to accomplish this.<br \/>\nAlthough Darfur is part of Sudan, it is physically distant from the country\u2019s heartland and sources of military power. Every inch of the 600 miles of barren territory between Khartoum and the killing grounds is an opportunity for a reprieve commanded by American air power \u2014 with not a boot on the ground. The Sudanese military in Darfur can be trapped there without sustenance, to wither or retreat as the bulk of Sudanese forces are kept out. And the janjaweed can be denied tangible support merely by severing the few extenuated routes of supply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why are we waiting another day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mark Helprin in The New York Times, a way to end the genocide in the Sudan&#8230; yesterday: DESPITE almost 1.5 million bombing sorties flown against Germany during the Second World War, the United States and Britain failed for lack of trying to destroy the system of transport that fed the gas chambers and crematoria.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Justice for Sudan - J Walking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2008\/03\/justice-for-sudan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justice for Sudan - J Walking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Mark Helprin in The New York Times, a way to end the genocide in the Sudan&#8230; 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