Took long enough

The U.N. has finally approved sending a peacekeeping force to Darfur. Three years ago, Colin Powell was at the U.N. doing everything in his power to try to convince the U.N. to take action. How many people would still be alive if they headed his call at that time instead of waiting three years to act?

It's a good thing that Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton don't run the U.N. or else we'd still be waiting.

UN OKs 26,000 Peacekeepers for Darfur
ABC News

The U.N. Security Council approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur on Tuesday to try to help end four years of fighting that has killed more than 200,000 people in the conflict-wracked Sudanese region.

The force the first joint peacekeeping mission by the African Union and the United Nations will replace the beleaguered 7,000-strong AU force now on the ground in Darfur no later than Dec. 31. The council urged that the AU-U.N. "hybrid" achieve "full operational capability and force strength as soon as possible thereafter."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called it a "historic and unprecedented operation" that will send "a clear and powerful signal" of help to the people of Darfur.