Truce and troops -- The Washington Times

An excellent idea of appointing an internationally respected person to get involved in the Darfur cause--?Colin Powell...

Truce and troops -- The Washington Times: "Unless more is done immediately to end the slaughter of innocents in Darfur, historians may treat today's world leaders about as kindly as the Government of Sudan is currently treating its own people.
History is instructive. In the early 1940s, Allied leaders dismissed as exaggerated reports of what was happening in Nazi concentration camps. It wasn't until late in the war that those who escaped finally convinced world leaders otherwise. After the war, leaders came together and pledged 'never again.' But never again has become again and again -- in Cambodia, Uganda, Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya and now Darfur"...
That's why the United Nations should immediately appoint a highly visible and well-respected international figure to address, and end, the slaughter in Darfur. Peacekeepers alone cannot solve the problem. Darfur needs peacemakers as well.