While the bad news is that special envoy Andrew Natsios' findings from his recent trip to Sudan were horrible enough to compel President Bush into action, the good news is that Bush now says that he's working on a plan for the region that might even include deployment of a "credible and effective international force to go into Darfur to save lives."

IIRC, that's more of a public commitment than G.H.W. Bush ever made on Bosnia or Clinton on Rwanda. Perhaps it's not too completely naive for me to see that sort of rhetoric as a positive step? On this, I think, better to have trust and lose than to discount the possibility of U.S. leadership altogether.