Surprisingly, Darfur is a place in Sudan as well as a rhetorical device (Daniel Davies)

Copy of a blog entry by Chris in Boston at Left Center Left May 3, 2006:

"Daniel Davies echoes my sentiments on Darfur,

Demanding "action" without ever saying what that "action" might be is the height of irresponsibility, and is almost always a marker of someone who has not troubled themselves to spend five minutes reading Sudan Watch to find out what is actually going on.

...only makes the more specific point (above and here that events on the ground have shifted to the point that diplomacy is nearing success and that it's quite probably the Stop Darfur voices in the West who are destabilizing that right now."

[Thanks chaps. Note, Daniel's blog entry at Crooked Timber (link above) has attracted some 50 comments]