It looks obvious

A very good article in the today’s Wall Street Journal offers a word of caution about the current peace agreement in Sudan:

 Put simply, Sudan’s track record inspires no confidence that it will abide by the agreement it has now signed. Unlike the 2005 deal with Garang, Khartoum isn’t under any serious military pressure from the rebels, nor is there any looming threat of external military intervention. It may serve Mr. Bashir’s purposes to co-opt the main rebel faction, not least as a way of breaking the back of the movement and destroying the rebels who remain. That doesn’t bode well for ordinary Darfuris, whose most realistic hope of salvation is their ability to mount an effective self-defense.

The article offers different, and somewhat to simplistic,  view of the option how to handle the Darfur crisis from erupts again:

This leaves the United States, the only country in the world with the capability and, potentially, the will to aid Darfuris and every other group threatened with genocide or brutal oppression. President Bush has certainly been engaged with the crisis in Darfur, more so than any of his alleged moral betters in places such as France and Sweden. Yet having endured so much opprobrium and resistance to his last two acts of international hygiene — the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq — it’s no wonder he’s reluctant to carry another burden, particularly when American interests are not directly at stake.

There’s a lesson here for all of those liberal internationalists who now demand the Administration "do something" in Darfur: If you want to stop genocide, don’t shackle the world’s only policeman.

The Darfur crisis is not over yet, and we will need to keep a close eye that it isn’t being neglected again.