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Thursday, July 21, 2005

How Not To Win Friends and Influence People

Posted by on July 21 at 17:11 PM

If the Sudanese leadership wanted to disabuse people of the notion that Sudan is run by a bunch of genocidal thugs, then roughing up the American Secretary of State’s entourage, plus an American television reporter, was probably not a good idea.

The headline alone is unbelievable: “Rice Angry at Abuse of Aides in Meeting with Sudan Leader.”

And yet what are we doing to stop what even our government calls a “genocide” in the Darfur region of Sudan? Close to nothing.