Helping with Darfur

With overseas crisis like the Sudan genocide, it's easy to feel helpless. I've seen some calls for action asking for letters to politicians telling them to do something, but I have to ask: do what? What can our politicians do.

Then I read this article by Leonard Pitts, of the Miami Herald. (I don't know why it's not on their site - he may not write all his columns for them.) The skinny is that the White House recently killed the Darfur Accountability Act, which would require sanctions on Sudan. I don't know if it's revivalbe, but it's worth trying. Sanctions aren't a miracle cure, but at least this would go beyond pronouncements unsupported by action or attempts at a UN resolution blocked by China.

Now I have to live up to my words and write my senators and representative about this.