I am in favour of whatever it takes to stop the situation in Sudan but somehow I don't think this is enough (via Norman's Spectator). Toronto Star columnist Haroon Siddiqui invokes the spirit of Bono and says Sudan needs more Canada.
...Senator Mobina Jaffer understands.
Since Jean Chrétien named her Canada's special envoy to Sudan in 2002, she has met that country's many estranged peoples, while also talking to Khartoum.
In July, she helped bring Darfur's religious and tribal leaders together in a traditional dispute-resolution conclave. She was in Nairobi Sunday for the signing of the north-south deal. Next week, she will meet the Beja rebels (she's the only foreigner given a permit to go into eastern Sudan). Then she will return to Darfur.
Canada is providing the political know-how and the resources to nudge Sudan toward a national policy of reconciliation, she said in a phone interview yesterday from Kampala, Uganda.
I wish that all it took was a nudge...The world has been nudging for 18 months and things don't look any better.
...Sudan's disparate people are yet to be fully integrated. We know of the tragedies of the south and the west. Others are brewing elsewhere.
Martin must work with Bush to add Canadian understanding and expertise to American clout.
He should also be asking the Muslim world: why won't it help?
We could ask the same thing about the United Nations, but with China and Russia having votes on the Security Council we know why they won't help here.
