Given that the only remaining justification for removing Saddam (no WMDs, no terrorist links) was to liberate the people of Iraq, what will the great Western powers do about Sudan? Was it all about oil after all (everybody say "No!")? Or has the invasion of Iraq so split the UN that it is now incapable of action, just when it is needed most (and has been for quite a few months now)? Or are governments embarrassed to admit that US and British forces over-extended in the Middle East, leaving them incapable of mounting a peace-keeping mission in Sudan? Or do we in the affluent Western hemisphere now inhabit a moral vacuum where people just don't care?
"THE MORAL ORDER we inhabit fell into focus on Thursday, and it was an awful moment. In an act without precedent since the U.N. Genocide Convention was adopted in 1948, a government accused a sitting counterpart of genocide -- a genocide, moreover, that even now is continuing. And yet the accused government may not pay a price for committing this worst of all humanitarian crimes, because there is a limit to how much powerful nations care. "
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