Talk about an understatement....on Darfur...

As quoted in the Washington Post

Antonio Guterres, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, said international divisions had allowed the Sudanese government greater scope to maneuver.

"The problem is the international community is not clearly united in a front to make sure that things really happen," Guterres told BBC radio.

"The fact that the international community is not really able to act together forcefully . . . creates an environment in which it is much easier to do things which are being done."

creates an environment in which it is much easier to do things which are being done...Like murder? Like rape? Like Genocide?

Tony Blair can talk about offering incentives till he's blue in the face, the problem is not enough other nations care. The main reason the African Union failed in the first place was they didn't get the necessary support.

Since the fighting began in 2003, war and disease have killed as many as 450,000 people in Darfur and driven more than 2 million from their homes.

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir doesn't want the UN there because it might actually force his government to stop killing people. Yet, the UN plays games and tries to offer "incentives". He's threatening to kill UN troops if they enter his country because the UN is weak. The international community has no power because they can't even agree on what to do anymore and even those like al-Bashir know the UN won't do anything. NATO can't even muster up enough troops for Afghanistan. Quite a bit of the responsibility for all of this can be laid directly at the door of the United States for deciding the war in Iraq was necessary. The rest can be laid at the door of the UN for their inaction. Those countries that don't want the US to hold so much power could demonstrate they really mean it by stepping up, especially in Darfur.

"NATO's credibility and future are at stake in Afghanistan," said Pierre Lellouche, president of the French delegation in NATO's parliamentary assembly. "They can't fail, otherwise NATO will lose its credibility."

I think it's too late Pierre, it's obvious neither NATO or the UN has any credibility anymore and unfortunately the ones who will end up paying for this are the ones who had hope that the international community would help them.