Kristof writes in the NY Times today that the Bush administration has now backed away from its activism regarding Sudan.
Finally, finally, finally, President Bush is showing a little muscle on the issue of genocide in Darfur.
Is the muscle being used to stop the genocide of hundreds of thousands of villagers?
No, tragically, it’s to stop Congress from taking action.
Lousy.
From the fiction angle, Philip Caputo, whose Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War is a true classic, just published a new novel Acts of Faith that takes Sudan’s civil war as its setting. Reviews of the book can be found here, here, and here.