Response To Magzine Article On International View Of Darfur

                
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60434/scott-straus/darfur-and-the-genocide-debate
             
                 This article talks about the international response to Darfur and the trivial debate they are having of whether or not a genocide occurred.  This article eludes to the way the international community denied that a genocide was happening until it was too late. If the U.N. had declared the conflict in Darfur a genocide then that would have warranted immediate international response, but the U.N. denied that a genocide was happening so they would not have to get involved.
                 The article also talks about how in 2004 the U.S. had the conflict legally declared a genocide. Even with this conflict having been declared a genocide it still was not enough for the U.S. to intervene immediately. This article explains the international views towards the conflict in Darfur in a very basic manner, but it still manages to mention most of the important things that are happening in Darfur and how the international community views them. Since this article was written in 2005 it gives a clear and present first hand insight of the conflict and how it was viewed then. It also bares testament to the fact that the international community has failed to act in the face of a clear genocide. This article states appropriately that Darfur was a good test to see if the international community would uphold its promise of never again letting a genocide happen. Now it is clear that they did let it happen and the millions of people who were affected by the genocide were let down by the U.S., the U.N. and the world in general just as other in the face of  total eradication have been.