The U.N. and U.S. and U.K. and A.U. and A.L. Walk Into a Bar...
At the U.N. today, Condoleeza Rice reportedly wrastled other diplomats into an emergency meeting on Darfur that had as its goal finding a way to get U.N. troops on the ground, in the hopes of preventing a big disaster from turning into a really very big one. But with a slightly different take is the Arab League's Secretary General, Egypt's Amr Moussa, who has this to say:
We have suffered at certain stages of this problem of either exaggeration or misinformation. We have a major problem in Darfur, but not all what you hear, not all the information circulated, are really accurate.The Arab League, you'll remember, is committed to contributing funding to the newly extended African Union force but has backed Khartoum's handling of Darfur for a few years now. Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, Tony Blair has called for an emergency summit to discuss what next steps the international community can take in Darfur. Man, this is the sort of time when you hope your diplomats are good ones.
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