While You Were Distracted

by events in Mesopotamia, another country in Africa is enduring another awful war. And who pays? As always, the people who can least afford it.

The Sudan has seen its share of violence, including a long war with neighboring Chad.

Will most of the rest of the world sit around on its ass again while an African country self-immolates? Will the US get involved? Here's a clue: the American military is already tied down due to the ill-advised neoconservative screw-up in Mesopotamia, and Sudan isn't sitting on the world's second-largest reserves of petroleum.