[gaspar]

The tragedy of all this is if the USA would provide a half-dozen attack helicopters with merc pilots to the SPLA the war would be over in a month. They could attack the airbases at Juba and Wau, hit the oifield infrastructure, and drive Khartoum and the Muslim north to the peace table. We owe the Sudan nothing; it provided a home to OBL for five years and still allows Palestinian offices to function in Khartoum. Get that damned simp Danforth and the ineffectual Colin Powell out of the way and go for the jugular.

[maryz]

We owe the Sudan nothing; it provided a home to OBL for five years . . .

To be fair, they did offer to turn OBL over to Clinton when he was president -- Clinton, of course, ever sensitive to violations of the law, rejected it on legal grounds.