The United Nations said it has received pledges of troops and police for a mostly African peacekeeping force to help end the four-year conflict in Darfur that has claimed over 200,000 lives, a development that would meet a key Sudanese demand.
A large number of African countries, along with several from Asia and one from the Middle East, were included in a preliminary list of nations that have offered military and police personnel. However, no Western countries were on the list. While I am happy about the progress towards ending the Darfur conflict, and about the American media finally taking notice (before today, I got the Darfur headlines from other nations' news sites), I am a bit disappointed that the US is not on this preliminary list.
I mean, we have troops, right? Oh wait, they're in Iraq. Right.
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