Coalition for Darfur: A Prayer for the Dying

This week's Coalition for Darfur post updates readers on Congressional efforts to address the slaughter of Darfur. Thanks to pressure from the president, efforts to impose a meaningful response have stalled. Instead, Congress has called on the American people to pray. Now, I'm all for prayer, but this is pathetic.

If members of Congress are truly concerned about the deaths of nearly 400,000 Darfuris, or the fates of an estimated 3 million more, they are certainly capable of doing more than quietly declaring a "National Weekend of Prayer and Reflection."

Save Darfur deserves credit for getting Congress to even do this much, but this resolution cannot absolve Congress of its pathetic failure to adequately address the situation in Darfur. If anything, it only serves to highlight the government's utter lack of concern.

We Americans should be so proud. Give me a break!