I’m becoming increasingly sick of this sort of statement by Kristof or anyone else:

This African Union archive is classified, but it was shared with me by someone who believes that Americans will be stirred if they can see the consequences of their complacency.

The pictures Kristof wants us to look at show us, Americans and everyone who sees them, the consequences of the actions of the murdering scumbags who killed those people. How to go about stopping such people from doing murdering is a valid topic for discussion but I will not accept those murders as the consequence of either my action or inaction.

That said, the US is otherwise engaged at the moment. Any number of individual nations or combinations of nations has sufficient power of whatever form they choose to employ to go to Darfur and stop the slaughter. It’s time for France, Germany, Russia, China, India, Japan and on and on and on to step up and behave as if they are responsible citizens of this planet and take on some of the nasty, ugly work required to make it a better place.