Nat Hentoff is a true and intellectually consistent civil libertarian. Today, he has the first of two columns blasting the UN for fiddling while Darfur burns and calling on Pres. Bush to act now. Hentoff's right. And here's his clarion call:
Susannah Sirkin of Physicians for Human Rights speaks the raw, saving truth in the July 23 New York Times: "The goal of prevention, which is paramount, cannot wait until a full legal determination is made."
On the same day, in a dispatch from BBC News, photographer Marcus Bleasdale, who reportedly took "pictures of between 30 and 40 mass graves in Darfur, in which up to 100 people had been buried," told the BBC: "As we looked along the horizon, we could see hands and heads sticking out of the trenches [of those graves]."
Of course this is genocide. It is also pure evil. Mr. Bush is not afraid of that word. Let him, right now -- unlike Bill Clinton turning away from Rwanda -- save lives in Darfur.
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