George Clooney and John Prendergast travel to the border region of northern and southern Sudan, where a referendum this January will decide if the south will secede from the north. George Clooney And John Prendergast: We Can Prevent The Next Darfur -- George Clooney and John Prendergast, Washington Post
If you had had the opportunity three months ahead of time to prevent Darfur's genocide, what would you have done?
The world faces such an opportunity today. On Jan. 9, just 84 days from now, the people of southern Sudan and of the disputed region of Abyei -- which straddles northern and southern Sudan -- will vote in referendums on self-determination. If held freely and fairly, these votes will result in an independent, oil-rich Southern Sudan. If not, the catastrophic war between the north and the south that ended in 2005, after 2.5 million deaths, could resume.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Can We Really Trust the Taliban? -- Mitchell Reiss, FOX News
Taliban talks: folly or fortune? -- Robert Grenier, Aljazeera
Advantage: Taliban: Islamists know America will abandon Afghanistan eventually -- Washington Times editorial
Miss the Middle Ages? Try Afghanistan -- Nancy Goldstone, L.A. Times
What is the US trying to do in the Middle East? -- Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star
Sudan’s Threatened Peace Deal -- New York Times editorial
Shifting power dynamic at the United Nations -- Patrick Smyth, Irish Times
Obama's foreign policy: big ideas, little implementation -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
The New Currency War -- Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard
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