OP-ED: “A genocide that America can help to stop: Bolton should schedule a meeting of the Security Council in Darfur,” by Kenneth H. Bacon, International Herald Tribune, 1 February 2006, p. 6.

OP-ED: “A no-flight zone is key,” by Kurt Bassuener, International Herald Tribune, 1 February 2006, p. 6.

Amazing how so many politicians, some with presidential ambitions, seem so bold about bombing Iran, but can we get a couple to talk about dropping a few on Sudan?

The idea of a no-fly-zone is not nutty whatsoever. That’s all we did for the Kurds for 12 years and it turned out to be the most successful U.S. nation-building story since WWII.

We’re sitting on top of the world, so to speak, holding the chair of the UN Security Council for a month. Since the Chinese and Russians won’t let us do anything with Iran in February, how about letting John Bolton, a man who hates tyranny, go all nutty on Khartoum’s war-criminal regime?

The no-fly-zone concept is a reasonable course, one we might actually talk the Chinese into accepting, since it doesn’t topple the regime they’re so cozy with and would actually increase the security of their oil interests there. Meanwhile, we make it that much harder for the janjaweed to do their thing. I mean, hey, it ain’t the Air Force that’s being run ragged in the southwest Asia. Done right, this is a low-to-no casualty affair (Remember how many U.S. servicemen and women died running the no-fly-zones over Iraq all those years? Of course you don’t. That wasn’t an operation where we lost people.).

The African Union has no tactical air power, and never will. The U.S. shows up as hub of that SysAdmin peacekeeping effort or it never happens--never. Want all that blood on your hands, or do we never count sins of omission?

Would you like to be unabashedly proud of American foreign policy again? The SysAdmin is your man.