Analysts say that Darfur is Rwanda in slow motion, that we should send troops to protect African civilians from their Arab killers and disarm the infamous Janjaweed.
In the Rwandan genocide, a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days. It was Africa's holocaust. Few would have opposed a short sharp episode of colonial-style armed intervention to stop it. . . .
Darfur is a war - a horrible war, but first and foremost, it is a war.
Ninety per cent of the deaths occurred four to five years ago and the government and its militia proxies were the main culprits. . . .
The rebels started the recent offensives - notably the attack on the capital, Khartoum - some Arabs have switched sides, and Chadians have plunged in on both sides. . . .
Relief is now so proficient that death rates among Darfur's children have been brought down to pre-war levels. We should keep that aid effort going.
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