HE'LL NEVER INVADE IRAQ...:

Sudan Says It Will Try to Meet UN Demands on Darfur (Nima Elbagir, 7/31/04, Reuters)

Sudan will try to comply with a U.N. resolution threatening sanctions if it does not disarm marauding militia in Darfur, a Sudanese envoy said Saturday, backing down from an initial rejection of the vote.

France said its soldiers based in Chad would help to bring aid and security to refugees flooding across the border from the western region blighted by months of fighting.

The U.N. Security Council adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution Friday which threatened to clamp sanctions on Sudan in 30 days if it failed to stop attacks by Janjaweed militia and bring them to justice.

"Sudan is not happy with the (U.N.) Security Council resolution, but we will comply with it to the best of our ability," Osman Al Said, Sudan's ambassador to the African Union, told a news conference in Ethiopia.

"Because should we fail to do so, we know our enemies would not hesitate to take other measures against our country."

Pretty hard to argue that this isn't a function of the Allies establishing a policy of unilateral pre-emption wherever we see fit.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 31, 2004 12:13 PM